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...Manhattan, Broadway reporters picked up the trail of a Frank Wallace who played the part of a Bowery singing waiter in Mae West's Diamond Lil in 1928, learned he had died two years ago. Actor Wallace's picture zipped over 3,000-mi. of telephone wire to Hollywood. Mae West: "Yes, I remember that face. But I was never married to anybody." ¶Manhattan newshawks rooted up an-other Frank Wallace in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie La Mae. Readily Hoofer Wallace admitted it was he who had married Mae West in Milwaukee. Hearst...
...Just an effort on the part of Shanghai to advance on the trail of progress blazed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek," Mayor Wu told friends who overwhelmed him with congratulations. "The first Wednesday in every month from now on I will conduct such marriages. The thing has taken hold at once. Already 31 couples have applied for next month. It is all part of Generalissimo Chiang's great 'New Life' movement to regenerate China...
...anticipating intensive study during the coming months would do well to avail themselves of two dollars and fifty cents' worth of as exciting and diverting relaxation as they are likely to find in contemporary literature. "Riding the Mustang Trail," the narrative of a four-hundred-mile "trail drive" of a large herd of wild mustangs from the Mescalero country of New Mexico to a shipping point in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, is a saga proving beyond all doubt that there still is a West, in the realest sense of the term, that it is still full of pitfalls, even...
...were continually coursing through his voins. His book is a peculiarly happy mixture of the simplicity, honesty and quiet humor indigenous to the countryborn, with a style so facile and fluent as to put the majority of his elders to shame. At times, his descriptions are startingly effective. The "trail drive" becomes an actual experience for the reader, and when the last page is regretfully turned, one's mind travels back o episodes which the author has left indelibly on one's memory. There is nothing sensational or cheap in Mr. Blake's story; he doesn't have to resuscitate...
...himself to the district as to imperil his writings about other sections, and that when and if he turns to fiction he will not have become typed. For American literature is in need of writers as unassuming and yet as penetrating as is Mr. Blake in "Riding the Musiang Trail...