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...fastest ocean liner afloat. Adroitly he deals with dictaphones, fake wireless messages, the poisoned needle springing from the clasp of a cigaret box. When at last the Master Criminal lies dead and the fiance of the daughter of his old friend is restored to society, he punctuates with a tap of his pipe the famed, "Eleementary, Watson, eleementary." Best shot: dinner 'for two in the arch-fiend's cabin...
When an oldtime singer sang that old-time song last week, Manhattan forgot for an instant its tap-dancing tunes and wallowed in a sentiment marvelous to behold...
...session lasted only four minutes. It consisted only of a prayer and an adjourning gavel tap. It was, however, the first time in history a woman ever presided over the U. S. House of Representatives...
Chairman of the Engineering Foundation is Henry Hobart Porter who is also president of the American Water Works & Electric Co., Inc. When 2,300,000 people in 195 communities in 16 states turn on their tap water, when 1,900,000 people in 1,275 communities in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio ride on trolley car or bus, these people are using water power or electricity provided by Mr. Porter's company. Stock holders in Mr. Porter's company know that its outstanding common stock value has risen $196,000,000 this year, that the total...
...Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe it or not, I'm a stowaway...