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...Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river. Soon the Vaccaros pooled their funds and chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...
...Busy to Work (Fox). People who like Will Rogers in the cinema often use the word "lovable" to describe his gargling impersonations. This time Will Rogers is a lovable tramp named Jubilo, vaguely desirous of revenging himself on a man who made off with his wife during the War. Even revenge, for Jubilo, reduces itself to loitering. He loiters into the household of a respectable judge (Frederick Burton) who naturally turns out to be the man Jubilo is looking for. After trying to milk a cow by putting a pail under it and saying "Go on!", straightening out romantic difficulties...
Dealer (morning). The merger was purely financial. The News is still published in its own premises, a plant so fine that the yellowish News has been called "the tramp that lives in a palace...
Belgians remember with shivers the remorseless tramp, tramp of Kaiser Wilhelm's field-grey hordes, the death-belching thunder of Hohenzollern guns. One night last week the Belgian Cabinet sat up late, heard its veteran Foreign Minister, far-sighted Paul Hymans, fire a broadside of warnings...
...Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) is too ambitious to go back to his old job in a shoe factory. He wants to be a construction engineer and sets out to look for a job. His luck is bad. One night he finds himself in a lunchroom with a tramp who points a gun at the proprietor and orders Allen to open the cash register. When police arrive, they kill the tramp and hold Allen for robbery. He is sentenced to ten years at hard labor...