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Conjuror and Scene Painter. British Author Cameron was born (1898) in London's dingy East End, slept with his unemployed parents in the workhouse. Later he worked as street-hawker, odd-job boy in a tin-plate factory, at a lumberyard, as a dispatcher, bartender, conjuror. He also painted scenery for Cavalcade, Victoria Regina, The Miracle and "practically all the best-known English and American shows between 1930 and 1939." Now he is lecturing in Upsala, Sweden...
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
...Emperor Jones's life is an open book of closed deals. Some of those deals were sharp. But they are all closed. He made those closed deals in one city, and incidentally made the city. Houston, Tex. was a desolate prairie hamlet when young Jesse Jones, up-&-coming lumberyard owner, took it apart and put it together again...
...Tennessee farmer, he went to Dallas to work for his well-to-do uncle, M. T. Jones; then went to Houston in stead of college. In nine years he ran one lumberyard into 65, branched out into real estate, banking, other investments...
Through Chicago streets into sheds in his South Side lumberyard Mr. Meitus proudly led a nervous procession of 9 monkeys, 6 horses, 5 trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms...