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Died. Sir Gerald du Maurier, 61, actor, manager, son of the late Artist & Novelist George du Maurier (Trilby, Peter Ibbetson); following an operation for an internal disorder; in London. In 1896 Sir Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine...
...children can go back to school and 300,000 families can move out of depressing hovels into sanitary, sun-lit homes." His remedy for crime: education. "While we are striving to deal with one gangster, a thousand criminals are in the making. We pluck leaves from the tree of crime when we should put an axe to the root...
...once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside...
Corn is not the only thing that grows fast and big on the sunbaked, rain-drenched prairies of Illinois. A single tree was all that broke the flat monotony of a stretch of prairie between Urbana and West Urbana (now Champaign) in 1867 when citizens planted a State university there. In 67 years their seed has blossomed into the nation's seventh largest university. The 1,500-acre waste of prairie is green and landscaped, thick with great buildings. The new president whom trustees picked last week will administer a faculty & student body numbering 15,000 and a plant...
...those who keep an eye on the main chance and let nothing stand in their way; more kindly, less certain souls, who wish only to live and let live, are trampled beneath the feet of the climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there is no Eden without the tree of the knowledge of right and wrong. Selina Jacox, stern, avaricious, grasping all she could hold, becomes the millionaire apricot Queen, known all over the country, and lived out her lonely days in a cheerless mansion, bejeweled and embittered, fabulously wealthy in money, but poor in everything else...