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...from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys, soda-jerkers, danced with their minnies from the sticks, sundae-sallies with naughty eyes. Mayor Stoney gave the prize to Freddie Danidel and Anna Duvall of Memphis as the best from the South; to Thomas Nolan, Shelba Singer...
Anon the way of the Spirit seems wondrous sweet to her and she returns to the cathedral, and the Virgin, who has all these years played the part of a model nun, casts off the nun's garments and again becomes a sacred image. As she does so she takes into her arms the child which the nun has brought back, the child which dies as she returns to the way of the spirit...
...Clampett, who led the prayer service, prayed: "For the great army of scientists, God, we praise Thee. Forgive their mistakes, sanctify their efforts, crown their conquests. Greater than creed is the pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship...
Metropolitan--"Blue Beard's Seven Wives" with Blanche Sweet, Lois Wilson, and Ben Lyon...
...Reichenbach is particularly proud of having raised, on a wager, a certain Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away...