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...Boy of Flanders. Poor Jackie Coogan! If he doesn't look out this little millionaire will degenerate into America's smallest ham. Those who are now guiding his destinies are already filling him up with stagy tricks, turning him into the poor little rich boy. In his latest picture, made from Ouida's classic, A Dog of Flanders, Jackie does just what you might expect a small-time vaudevillian to do under given circumstances. There are many points of wistful appeal in the tale of the little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny...
...Stanford White, connoisseur of beauty in art and women, already had won her. Her hair as black as smoke in the night, her eyes limpid and violet, her under lip full and tremulous, her bosom shallow as the chest of a growing boy, her experience that of a woman much older, she held out her arms to the wastrel Pittsburgher and he rushed into them...
...Embassy to the National Palace were lined with dense, silent crowds. There was only the sound of the hoofs and the carriage wheels, as the cavalcade, including the Embassy staff in other carriages, dashed past. The only cheers along the entire line of march was given by a small boy, who yelled: "Viva los Americanos 1 Viva el Senor Warren...
Born in Troy, N. Y., March 27, 1840, George F. Baker got a job at $2 as grocer's boy, participated in 1863 in the formation of the first New York Bank under the National Bank Act, "plunged" successfully in U. S. war bonds, made the First National Bank the bank of banks-that is about all that is known of Mr. Baker† in the last century. Friends say he has the hardest shell and softest heart in America...
Died. Leon R. Taylor, 41, onetime "boy Governor" of New Jersey; of tuberculosis, in Denver. Aged 30, he became Governor when Woodrow Wilson resigned that position to become President...