Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also with Caldwell he nearly bought the Atlanta Constitution, and bid $12,000,000 for the Kansas City Star...
...time in musicomedy, sings but one song. But svelte Frances Williams ably croons "Go Into Your Dance," "I'm Getting Ready for You," "The Great Indoors," all of which are excellent. An abundance of rowdy comedy is supplied by Clayton, Jackson & Durante, who have some new material to add to their ever-welcome, hysterical acts, "Wood," "Money" and "The Hot Patata." Hoarse-voiced Jimmie Durante, as a college professor at Sing Sing, is advised by Hope Williams: "You've got to shoot your way to freedom!" Says he: "Who is this guy Friedman, a lawyer?" The New Yorkers...
...have the idea he wrote a dictionary.**With the exception of the bit about the dictionary, your memory is accurate if not exhaustive. No debunker but a solid and serious historian, Fuess has filled two fat volumes with facts about his hero, facts which somehow, however, do not add up into a speaking likeness. Some facts you may have forgotten: that Daniel Webster took drugs for his chronic diarrhea, drank a good deal, and died of cirrhosis of the liver. No less authorities than the late Henry Cabot Lodge, James Ford Rhodes implied that Webster was overfond of women...
...most obvious fault of the presentation brings one to the conclusion that the cast, like the football team, might do better if practice were started earlier. Having lines pounded into one's ears does not add to the enjoyment of a play of the sort. True, one can better appreciate the work of the actors it one hears the lines read first by the uninspired prompter...
...collection, is Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man." This valuable portrait was formerly in the collection of the Duke of Oldenburg. Hanging on the same wall is a "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple." Several Italian primitives...