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...Holly, N. J., Ralph Eshelman, bread wagon driver, noticed on two successive days that Joseph Carney, dumb cripple, was peering out of his window, tapping feebly on the pane. On the third day Eshelman broke in the door, found famished Joseph Carney alone with the body of his mother, two days dead...
...woman smoking, practically never of a man or woman drinking. Last week's Satevepost was an exception. One article had pictures of a man beaming over a champagne goblet, a girl toying with an aperitif; but the text pointed a moral. Entitled "I Fell Off the Water Wagon," it was the testimonial of a middle-aged man who reached the final conclusion that drink is a curse. Apparently that was enough alcohol in one issue for Editor Lorimer. On Page 7 illustrating another story appeared a picture of a group of men & women gathered for cocktails before dinner. Their...
While for various reasons the talking pictures have never equalled either the dramatic or financial successes of their silent predecessors. "Cavalcade" has moments that send one back to "What Price Glory" or "The Covered Wagon" for sequences equally powerful. There is the scene in the London theatre during the Boer War. Some of those in the audience have sons or husbands "dying by inches" in Mafeking while a relief force is on its way in an attempt to raise the seige. The ballet and chorus are reaching their height when the manager stumbles out onto the stage and stops...
Bald, burly, able Artist George Benjamin Luks, 65, onetime signpainter, circus Wagon decorator, newspaper cartoonist in Cuba, oldtime rowdy Bohemian, began to worry about making a sideshow spectacle of himself after promising the Artists' Cooperative Market in Manhattan that he would paint a portrait of Dancer Doris Humphrey, for charity, before an audience of gaping New Yorkers. Coming well fortified for the ordeal, Artist Luks leaped on the platform, shouted at the astonished gathering: "I'm George Luks and I'm a rare bird! . . . You might as well leave the platform, young woman...
...laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold through dealers or art galleries. The Rogers Group man was the Fuller Brush man's grandfather...