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Tomlinson has been a fleet street newspaper man for a decade. Back in 1910 he accompanied an expedition to explore the further reaches of the Amazon. In the tramp steamer "The Capella", the party penetrated to the last thousand miles of the tropical river, which was the first time the feat had been accomplished. Tomlinson told the story in his "Sea and the Jungle", which appeared in 1910 and the first editions of which are now selling at $75 a copy...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, with the current century, "Dick" Halliburton romped through Princeton University more bareheaded than most, running cross-country, editing a pictorial magazine, taking astonishing vacations, by the age of 21. Then he romped around the world in tramp ship forecastles, called it The Royal Road to Romance, said he was "living poetry instead of writing it." He talks volubly, cracks many jokes, threatens to write a novel called Hell...
...blistered by a relentless sun. With his son, Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything the season has witnessed. For that reason, it may prove unpopular...
...matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline in the back yard and then hope for a tramp to come along and whack the dirt out of the carpets. If no bummer appeared, she knew that she would be obliged to quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty work." Therefore, she often beat the carpets herself and got her long hair, her eyes...
...Ohio, midwinter moose "yards" in Canada, squatters on the Mississippi, the death of a pirate on the Gulf of Mexico- these and scores of other matters the robust wanderer found time and energy to write down, usually by candle or pineknot light after a long day's tramp...