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...hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...
Colombia's Lt. Benny. Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, young Colombian flyer, affectionately called "Benny" at the Curtiss Flying Field where he trained, was still at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 in 1897 for a spavined relic of Benjamin Franklin called The Saturday Evening Post. Last week at 5? a copy it sold more than 2,750,000, bearing the face of the patriarch on the cover and the legend, "Two Hundredth Anniversary Number." Editor George Horace Lorimer commented on the occasion to the extent of two columns in the editorial section. Said he: ". . . to assist in the evolution of a finer and loftier civilization, to express our national spirit week by week, as truly and concretely as we can-all these...
...Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member of his staff...
Like almost every presentable young club member in Manhattan, Anthony Biddle Jr., has been called the city's best dressed man. At the age of 18, he married Mary L., the 28-year-old daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, the tobacco king.* Tongues wagged and darted, but the Biddies, in Palm Beach, Newport and Manhattan, for which they had deserted the native Biddle heath of Philadelphia, gave evidence of marital contentment. Tony Biddle played tennis, squash and swam, occasionally boxing at the Racquet Club to show that he was not afraid of being hurt, thus found many business enterprises...