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Died. Mrs. Viola Austman Fokker, 29, of Manhattan, Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after...
Died. Dr. Robert Josselyn Leonard, 44, director of the School of Education at Teachers' College, Columbia University, native of California; after illness with influenza and a nine-floor fall, possibly suicidal, from his apartment window; in Manhattan...
...marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that their titles explain to his sweetheart that he has gotten a divorce from the heiress...
...college girls givva more da mon' den da boys? Well, mebby, sometime. Nobody givva much in da cold weather. I maka most my mon' in spring, when it's warm an' da folks hang outta da window". Thus did Joe the hurdy-gurdy man, whose rickety cart, boney horse and barking dog are familiar figures in Cambridge, sum up his business prospects, without realizing that he was undergoing an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...likes the college groups, for usually they are free with their money. He enjoys nothing better than to have a crowd gathered about his machine, or students leaning out of a dormitory window shouting encouragement to his hurdy-gurdy, and occasionally expressing their approval with a handful of coins. Joe was once seen to pick up over 50 coins in less than five minutes when a group of students on the third floor of a dormitory held a competition to see who could drop the coins nearest to the horse's left hind foot. Another time Joe did a prosperous...