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...oysters with barley water in a dish. The oyster one day with shell open was attacked by mice and closed his shell. Thousands of picture cards were sold by Lowthian Bros., photographers. I would not have believed it if I had not seen the animals in the photographer's window. Live oysters are sure mousetraps...
...creature, an ascetic Italian duke. But his arrival does little to help the piece, which is melo-amorous studio stuff and none too clever at that. Doris Kenyon is present as a somewhat simpering U. S. jazzabel out on an ultimately successful coronet hunt. The header (out of a window) that wicked Count Stelio (Charles Beyer) takes is alleged actually to have dislocated the actor's neck...
...claims to have ministered to the Imperial family up to the last moment. She is said to possess a letter in the autograph of the Tsar written to several would-be rescuers at Ekaterinburg: "The cherished moment has arrived; you will be able to act. The seventh and eighth windows from the main entrance are now always open. Our guards consist of 13 men armed with revolvers and bombs. All the keys are with the Commandant, who treats us well enough. If you can aid us to escape through the window, please inform us. If we must have...
...lying since 1895 amid unpretentious surroundings in a Chicago cemetery, but within the fortnight it was announced that the Episcopal church of Kenilworth, 111. (village on Lake Michigan, 16 mi. north of Chicago, where lived William C. Englard Jr., a grandson of Eugene Field), is to have a memorial window and a "poet's corner"; that the poet's body will be moved there, together with personal mementos saved by his widow in the hope that their home would be preserved as a memorial...
...Agnes was taken from a play written and acted by Minnie Maddern Fiske. The theatrical lady placed the scene near her birthplace, in a tough Louisiana town. Toinette (heroine) is the unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests...