Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after...
...Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt to please, Mr. New asked the National Air Transport Co. (under contract to carry U. S. mail) to have its planes fly higher over Cackle Corner...
...property. The little tramp ran away and dodged into a big tent where there was a circus. Here he amused the spectators by his foolishness, got a job as property man, amused more audiences by his inept efforts to control his props. He fell in love with the circus proprietor's daughter, attempted to fake a tight-rope act, got nibbled by monkeys, ran away, helped the circus proprietor's daughter to marry a competent tight-rope walker. Then the little tramp, gay and forlorn, walked away down a road until he was out of sight...
...staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there is a lady, sometimes impersonated by a blue-jowled police court reporter, whose duty it is to supply a column of friendly counsel to cor respondents who sign themselves "Blue-eyes" or "Blonde" or "Brokenhearted." The most famed proprietor of such a column is one Beatrice Fair fax, who at her littered desk, sur rounded by helpmates, appears by proxy in this film. The plot, supposed ly non-fictitious, details the amorous bewilderments of those whose wails and whines serve Miss Fairfax as a means of support. There...
...first anniversary of the death of Jules E, Mastbaum, wealthy cinema theatre proprietor, French Government officials and noted citizens of Philadelphia last week watched a hole being made in the ground. This hole was the beginning of a museum, paid for by the wealth of Mr. Mastbaum, to house works of null Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). In it will be assembled the finest U. S. collection of his works. Outside and in front of it will be gardens and a statue, not of Mr. Mastbaum, but of The Thinker, Sculptor Rodin's most famed work...