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...America: William James Mayo, Howard Atwood Kelly, John Miller Turpin Finney, George Washington Crile, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Maude Slye, Aldred Scott Warthin, George Edward Pfahler, Evarts Ambrose Graham, Dallas Burton Phemister...
...picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
...Dallas, Tex., William Ledbetter, wrestler, wrapped powerful thighs around the head of Kenneth Turpin, wrestler. He squeezed. Kenneth Turpin wriggled, got away, applied his thighs to William Ledbetter's head. Ledbetter wriggled, got away. These tactics (called by wrestlers the "head scissors") continued. Soon Kenneth Turpin dropped to the canvas. Inert, he was rushed to the hospital. Doctors found a broken neck. Turpin died...
Died. Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France. His life was embittered in 1889 when he was falsely accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin...
...only occasion upon which Mr. Hays' "heart touch" seemed forced is when photographed with filmdom's buffoons-Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...