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DEVIL'S HOLIDAY?A Chicago manicurist takes a farmboy for a buggy ride (TIME...
Hero Chester Tattersall, unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom...
Many will learn with surprise that Paul Revere probably furthered the cause of the Revolution more by his engraving of the "Boston Massacre" than by his famous ride. Among others of the Colonial period Peter Pelham, the stepfather of Copley, was perhaps the greatest artist with his mezzotint portraits, a fact which few people realize...
DEVIL'S HOLIDAY?A Chicago manicurist takes a farmboy for a buggy ride (TIME...
...lead with the North Brothers Stock Company of Dallas, Tex., and seven years on the road for Oliver Morosco. Since he was born in Columbus, Ohio, and began to show ability for theatricals when he was ten, his friends have never been able to tell where he learned to ride. He is a clever horseman; his favorite diversions are trapping and hunting. During a period when he gave up show business because of his mother's opposition, he sold first farm machinery, then insurance, went broke running a garage. Now he has a chauffeur, a cabin...