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...evening in late September there was a stud-poker and high-spade game in the apartment of one James Meehan. It lasted 24 hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest...
Bringing Up Father. A kick in the pants is the humor of this jaunty Irish farce. All of the corned-beef-and-cabbage characters out of George McManus's comic strip are here; Maggie and her famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...
What newspaper reader aged 5 to 75 can name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed...
...said Mr. McManus, "can walk home...
...McManus heard medicine bottles rattle. Mrs. McManus reappeared to announce she had swallowed iodine. Mr. McManus telephoned for a private ambulance, begged forgiveness of his wife, now prostrate; rushed her to a hospital emergency room. Mrs. McManus sat up, dismissed attendants...