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...Levand Brothers are not so well known to the rest of the world as they are to Wichita, it is certainly not their fault. Trained under the late piratical Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils, they have done their best to perfect the methods they learned on his blazingly yellow Denver Post...
...young writers of Germany. As in a dream they responded to the mystic inspiration of Fichte, uniting in the quest for the blue flower, seeking the impalpable of the ideal. Friedrich Schlegel, opium-wafted Buddha, contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe's brow the garlands of supremacy which...
Only one thing could get the News out next morning: electric linotype machines. The Denver Post had a whole battery of them: the hated, hating, blatant old Post whose late Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils had been lambasted by the News until he died last winter. Since "Bon's" death his vigorous spinster daughter Helen, 38, has been running...
...married daughter, Mrs. May Bonfils Berryman, last week won the right to a full legacy and to her husband. The Bonfils will bequeathed her, $12,000 a year so long as she remained married to flashy Clyde V. Berryman, whom "Bon" disliked and resented; $25,000 a year if she became a widow or divorcee. A judge found that provision contrary to public policy, granted Mrs. Berryman an annuity like her sister's, with no strings...
Melody Cruise, RKO's first musical production, is built around Charles Ruggles- an expert comedian but no singer-in the character of a gentle bon vivant with a perpetual case of jitters. He embarks from Manhattan to San Francisco, has his trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs...