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Witless of the Japanese proverb, "A grain of rice is riches to a starving man," one Nassib Makaram, leader of Syrian tribesmen, rolled in his palm a grain of white rice. He, Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would...
...West Palm Beach. The Commercial Bank & Trust Co. closed its doors, thereby stirring up a run against the Palm Beach Bank & Trust Co. It closed also. But the other six banks of the city met all demands. Merchants strengthened the bank situation by guaranteeing their employes' deposits...
...frenzied search for a new title this show was known as Palm Beach Girl and, at the last moment as No Foolin'. Beneath this inconspicuous nomenclature lies a show bursting with opulence. On the opening night it played till midnight. It showed dozens of gorgeous scenes, scores of glorified girls, countless songs and scenes. So great was the supply of everything that the mind wearied and the tastes grew tired. One wished that Mr. Ziegfeld had condensed his entertainment. Such condensation will unquestionably occur before ten days are gone...
...Palm Beach Girl (Bebe Daniels). Florida real estate isn't so popular just now. Its values were overworked. Likewise Florida movies about the wild and winsome rich have been done and overdone. This is one more about rapid motorboats with the comedy included when the heroine gets seasick. Marvelous scenery and photography helps. They always help. In travel films that's all one looks...
...Dodge brothers who founded the famed auto manufactory of that name; to one Hugh Dillman, actor, divorced husband of famed actress, Marjorie Rambeau, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Dodge is asserted to have recently purchased for $3,000,000 the Joshua S. Cosden estate at Palm Beach, together with its furnishings, works of art, etc., valued at $1,000,000. At the wedding was Edward Townsend Stotesbury, famed Philadelphia capitalist...