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...whips his jaded horse into a final gallop that gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils of Reconstruction-just as soon as Author Basso gets around to writing the third novel of his planned trilogy about Pomoey's Head...
...making, man-eating industry began in 1859 when Edwin L. Drake, a sickly, bearded failure of a man in a stovepipe hat, brought in the nation's first commercial oil well near Titusville, Pa. Though Discoverer Drake wound up virtually penniless and forgotten, his find opened the scramble for oil across the land...
...bookings in the mail. For newcomers, Mrs. Clark's auditions may be the first real break (young Edgar Bergen did monologues for women's clubs before he got his first dummy), and for oldtimers, they may be the last one. In 1929 Mrs. Clark took in penniless Poet Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, got him going on the circuit, reciting poetry. Though Markham, then 80, could never remember where he put the ladies' checks, Mrs.Clark recalls proudly that creamed chicken kept him going until he died...
...king's son, married a beautiful princess, had a child and lived in silken luxury until he was 29. Then, seeing in turn a sick man, a corpse and an emaciated holy man, he was shocked into a realization of the harshness of life. He became a penniless wanderer and for six years mortified his flesh before deciding that extreme asceticism was not the path of deliverance...
AMERICA has had more than its share of unhappy artists. But Louis Eilshemius stands out as a prime example of genius blighted by the world's indifference. In 1941, the New York Herald Tribune headlined: EILSHEMIUS, 77, DIES IN BELLEVUE, PENNILESS, BITTER. AND FAMOUS. The fame that came too late has been growing sporadically since. In Manhattan last week the Artists' Gallery hung the biggest survey of Eilshemius' art to date...