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Dreiser Tells of Old Sam'l Clampitt's Junk-Yard, Etc. The Story. These 38 prose sketches of New York-the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery and the old-time bread-line-range odd corners of the city and exhume most curious figures from the dust of the first decade of the century. The Log of A Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over...
...superintendent at Yokohama, which is backed up by other American observers. The virtual indictment says "that the official order went out to kill as many Koreans as possible that on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1923, 250 Koreans were bound hand and foot, in groups of five, placed in an old junk, covered with oil, burned alive"; that soldiers, ordered to shoot eight Koreans, apparently enjoyed the horror of a party of Americans, who were forced to witness the preparations for the executions, and " instead of shooting the Koreans they bayonetted them "; that hundreds of Koreans were massacred and " thousands interned with...
Again she has come forward with what might be crudely but clearly termed an assemblage of junk. Zoé Akins, who has written considerable worthy material for the stage (Déclassée, A Texas Nightingale), is noted on the program as the individual originally responsible. The play looks pretty much as though Arthur Hopkins (producer) took Ethel over to the Akinses one afternoon last Summer and said to Zoe, " Run up to your playroom, like a good girl, and bring down something bright for Ethel...
Broadway Gold. Broadway is pictured as " the gilded boulevard, the jewelled magnet." Elaine Hammerstein plays the chorus girl who steps in the Broadway mud over her shoe-tops. Elliott Dexter does the rescue work. Glittering junk...
France finally ratified the Washington Naval Disarmament Pact. As a result the Navy Department has some 20 odd war vessels to dispose of as junk...