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...youth he slaved at loading kegs of oil and casks of wine onto tramp-ships, signed on as a sailor, outsmarted many another, and presently owned his own wallowing, chugging tramp steamer. His escalator to Monte Carlo is darkly whispered to have been the white slaving slums of Marseilles. If that trail exists it has been well covered, nay, completely effaced. The smart world will remember "The Greek" solely in his sleek role of banker at Deauville or Cannes...
...affair, and leaves her husband when that entity softly reminds her that after all, he is her husband, and won't she have dinner with him? For four months she lives with the scrivener, despite the plea of her now thrice-wed mother, who begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news Ellen screams, "Isn't she priceless?" But the effect is so profound that Ellen tightly closes windows...
...second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity. Man is the slave of machines...
Metropolitan, continuous-"Beggars of Life" with Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks. Tramp, Tramp, the hobooes are coming to town...
...place for a Yale French scholar to live in, so he went to London and stayed there among the chop suey dishes and Chinese laundries of the Limehouse district. When he came back to the U. S., he was a stowaway in the stoker's forecastle of a tramp ship...