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Last week Thank You Farm-the 62-acre J. W. Turpin place, a half mile west of Arthur Jackson's store on the paved highway-was bought and it was almost ready for Gene Atkins and his young wife...
...playlet called Master Poisoners. When his theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy. Chaplin bought all twelve...
Died. Dr. John Miller Turpin Finney, 78, famed surgeon, Chief Consultant in Surgery with the A.E.F. in World War I; in Baltimore. He was a teacher and surgeon at Johns Hopkins for more than 30 years...
...BATH-Cecil Roberts-Macmillian ($3). A sentimental journey along the London-Bath express highway by Briton Cecil Roberts, indefatigable World War I correspondent, novelist, lecturer, editor. A pleasant, journalistic exhumation of such folk as John Milton, Highwayman Dick Turpin, Henry VIII, Novelist Samuel Richardson, Pocahontas, the Duchess of Kingston, who two centuries ago attended a ball wearing only a pair of shoes, a sprig...
Died. Ben Turpin. 71, oldtime cinecomedian famed for his incredibly crossed eyes, veteran of many a pie-throwing Keystone Comedy; after long illness; in Hollywood...