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...plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution" has the lead and holds...
Southern notables assembled last week at Fletcher, N. C., to sing a song and unveil a tablet to the song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first...
Bernice Ridhardson. President Mark Embury Penney of Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.) had just read newspaper accounts of Miss Lanun's suicide and was thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register...
...watch an "old corps commander or admiral of the Civil War, tottering along to the club for his cards or cocktail." Over there was where Mrs. Dolly Madison used to live after her husband died, there was the house of Daniel Webster, of William H. Seward, of Commodore Stephen Decatur. In 1905 John Hay died; so did the one great salon of the New World...
...Barberton, Ohio, Louis Goudy, 14, of Decatur, Ind., stepped off his bike and arched two harassed insteps. Barberton is 213 miles distant from Decatur. Said Louis: "I heard grandmother was ill and I thought she might need me, so I came." Grandma was pleased...