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Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus...
...trying to say and sententious when it finds the answer, No Marriage Ties nonetheless manages to make Bruce Foster an interesting individual. It was an inspiration to have H. W. Hanemann write dialog for the story. His breathtaking puns, doubtless conceived in the hope of making Foster seem a wit rather than an addlepate, are the best strokes in the portrait. When Foster wakes up with a hangover and finds a girl in his apartment, he says: "Women are all soul and men are all heels." Another one comes when he has replaced pajamas with a suit: "The leper...
Students in the summer school who have had little chance to see Shaw will enjoy this selection in which the Irishman arrays his wit against war and heroics, and points out that gold braid does not change human nature. When Captain Bluntschil climbs into the heroine's boudoir he does so over the hood of the truck which at night is effectively disguised...
...called Mary, The Virgin. The company did produce two cinemas featuring Eddie Dowling, good Catholic comedian, before going into bankruptcy in 1930. The Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness of its Federal prosecutor, Jacob J. Rosenblum. The defense introduced 30 wit nesses, the prosecution 68. It took two clerks to keep the 941 exhibits straight. After three months one of the two alter nate jurors died...
...artistic sides. Modern society views the overwhelming dominance of women in this story of Hippolyta and her court, or in the play of Lysistrata, as unnatural to the point of ridiculousness, and so in the "Warrior's Husband" we have a ridiculous farce, bubbling with mirth and Broadway wit, but none the less, reminiscent of an Elk's pageant in a small town. For all the entertainment they give, Amazon's pictured here might do more than just swagger around and say "Oh Yeah" in chesty voices, and administer hefty slaps on hefty female backs. The farce is neither brilliantly...