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...Chicago, the Baron was raucously acclaimed. Louis F. Swift, meat man, whose guest he was, introduced the British Heir Apparent to the capital of the Middle West. Chicago proceeded to show him the town, with emphasis on the Stock Yards and the Saddle and Cycle Club...
...annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely) that she was his mother, and projected him disinterestedly into the arms of young and charming Consuelito. The whole is a swift, colorful story, roaming over several continents and not very relevantly embodying most of the early history of California. It ought to be better in the pictures...
Faster, faster, faster they went. Around the turn, along the back stretch, faster, faster, faster. Fifty thousand people rose to watch them finish, those eight swift-galloping horses, seven of America's best against the best of France. Into the home stretch they swept, brown and black bodies, flashing colored silks, rising, falling, tearing through their own mad dust-cloud...
...that the swift rise in stock prices this summer is over, discus- sion as to who made money out of it is the order of the day. Chief among those mentioned is W. C. Durant, onetime automobile manufacturer and inveterate bull speculator in stocks. Mr. Durant is said to have been the chief beneficiary in the meteoric rise of Cast Iron Pipe, to the tune of about $2 million. He is also said to have carried 25,000 shares of Southern Railway from the 30's to the 50's, as well as to have had heavy operations...
...Chocolate Dandies. When Shuffle Along burst boisterously on the metropolis a few years back, the wise and the simple tossed their prejudices aside and trampled one another in the effort to get in. It was Negro, it was incredibly swift, it was funny, it was irresistibly musical. It gathered in its train a vast array of imitators of which just one, Runnin' Wild, preserved the tradition. A second offshoot has appeared, fresh off the same family tree and quite in character. In dissecting The Chocolate Dandies, the observer finds the comedy of Sissle and Blake typically comic, the male quartet...