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Born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Mass. 46 years ago, Allen during his early career was known as Paul Huckle. Progressing onward and upward in vaudeville, he did a turn as Fred St. James and Freddie James before he finally became Fred Allen. As he went along he added patter to his act, acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold...
...simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired to a central studio with a practically unlimited choice of records, and subscribers all over town. Last week one of the largest companies in the new wired juke-box field, Magic Music, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, began supplying 32 Detroit...
...westward around Paris and, still sweeping around, finally pin the French Armies against the Rhine and the Alps. Last week, they watched the execution of another plan, another swing, but a swing in the opposite direction. Pivoting at Antwerp, the scythe swept westward. Its point at Sedan swept onward to Rethel, Laon, St. Quentin. For a time it threatened to swing far enough south to take in Paris, but its surest aim as it swept on day by day was to pin the Allied Armies in Belgium back against the Channel...
...angels, Verinda and Thomas Brown. As working Negroes go-they were cook & butler in Forest Hills, L. I.-the Browns were well heeled. Soon after they visited Father Divine's heaven at Sayville, L. I., confirming their angelic state by taking the names Rebecca Grace and Onward Universe, they forked out their savings, nearly $1,000. Onward Universe liked the porkchop heaven so well that he stayed put, while Rebecca Grace worked to send Father $70 of her monthly $80 wages, as her deposit in the "Heavenly Treasure...
...wrote the Bible, I didn't mean 'Who I have joined together let no man put asunder.' I meant this-that who I had joined together let no man put your body asunder." When the Browns met thereafter, they greeted each other politely with "Peace, Mr. Onward" and "Peace, Miss Rebecca." But they got fed up with this kind of heaven. Finally Rebecca Grace asked for her money back-$3,937, she said it totaled. Father Divine's reply, according to her testimony in court (TIME, Dec. 18): "He just said 'Peace' very loud...