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Chinese Manager James Lum, fearful of what awaited him that night in Chinatown, announced: "I will leave town...
...debutante daughter of Broker Sidney Johnston White. All afternoon maskers danced in the streets. After dinner came the parade of Camus (Spirit of Revelry). Before midnight the streets were growing quiet. In the Auditorium was held the exclusive Ball of Comus, whose Queen was Lucille Williams, debutante daughter of Lum berman Charles Seyburn Williams. At the stroke of twelve, before the Court of Comus appeared Rex & Queen. Everybody danced until morning, ate & drank until sunup, went home to sleep and fast for 40 days...
Thelma got to be fere (friendly) with the stranger, with his white hands and winning ways: almost consented to marry him. But she could not understand why he employed Lum Morgan. Chad, once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...
Legitimate actors, who long have repeated the slur that the only two-syllable word that Hollywood knows how to pronounce is "fil-lum," may not forget their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore...
...Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is the classic model. Mr. Stone, then part owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, printed a false despatch about some fictitiously sad distress in Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago told that the "Serbian" phrase was the printing in reverse of, "The McMullens will steal this sure...