Maiden Effort Drives Holmesholm Drama Toward Film Cast
Kelsey Hare and Martin Holmes clash over a stalled manuscript won in Purity Pictures contest. Kelsey adopts Holmes’ pen name Templeton Sayles to rent a decaying estate and star Marion Van Stratten in Maiden Effort while A Leon Snydacker drives production with lavish plans and a ball gown arrives for a key scene.
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Kelsey Hare
Martin Holmes
Waldavia
Holmes
Nolmesholm
Kelsey
Stark Avenue
Purity Pictures
Leon Snydacker
Templeton Sayles
Sayles
Glunk
Park Avenue van Strattens
Marion
Liggett Morse
A. Leon Snydacker
Peckett
Gloria Glamour
Moby Dickstein
Snydacker
Darrling
Moby
Gloria
Hare
New York
Holmes-Sayles
Moby Snydacker
Moldavia
A. Leon
Marion Norman van Stratten
Mr. Templeton Sayles
Europe
America
Dickstein
Miss van Stratten
Marne
Darrlings
Maine
Maiden Effort
Gabby Hartnett a durable iron man of baseball
Gabby Hartnett, Cubs catcher, bat .296 over 16 seasons with a peak .354 and swift, precise throws. Phil Wrigley boosts Hartnett to a $27,500 player-manager contract for his eighteenth Cubs season. Hartnett, a longtime leader and steadying influence, grew up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, as Charles Lee before his ascent with Chicago.
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York
Gabby Hartnett
Phil Wrigley
Chicago Cubs
Cubs
Woonsocket
L. I
Charles Lee
Chapter V1 Transformation of Holmesholm Estate
The benumbed tenant loses control as Holmesholm shifts owner ship in a fortnight. A high weekly rent brings profit to the new occupant. New furniture arrives, three trained servants replace Glunk who bites one and is banished to the barn. Maine moves to the best upstairs suite with Gloria nearby and Kelsey relegated to an end room.
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Holmesholm
Glunk
Maine
Gloria
Kelsey
Clock by geyser marks 12-year timekeeping oddity
A London Answers writer notes a Yellowstone National Park geyser clock that, fed by hot water every 38 seconds, has kept time for over 12 years without adjustment. It uses a lever triggered by each eruption to move hour and minute hands.
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London Answers Magazine
America
Yellowstone National Park
Mahomet and the Hill: A Lesson in Persistence
An old Bacon's Essays line recounts Mahomet urging a hill to come to him and then declaring he will go to the hill when it refuses. The tale is a sharp fable about determination and overreliance on force.
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George Grosz
Hitler
Art Students’ League
League
John Sloan
Queens
Consolidated
WNU
Mahomet
Bacon
Simple tote bag patterns and book offers
Tas bag patterns described for various uses with French seams and a hanger hole. Notes on fabric size, stitching, and finishing. Promotes Mrs Spears sewing books and a free quilt leaflet, with autograph option and price 25 cents each plus mailing address in Chicago.
Curious Nose and Ancient Dress in Witty Exchange
A social banter unfolds about a sharp nose signaling curiosity and a flattened nose suggesting excess. The Guide notes a dress spanning over a thousand years, while a punchline ties a busy wife to an address she will give the women’s club. A comic quip contrasts a police station with a laundry as a sergeant shaves irony.
Codfish Ball Joke Sparks Whimsical Encounter
A playful exchange at a codfish ball features a jab about belonging to the codfish aristocracy. The retort locates the humor at the event, highlighting social wit in a lighthearted dinner setting.
Notched revolver boasts in wild west exchange
A Western dialogue features a gunslinger bragging about killing with a notch on his revolver butt. The stranger counters that no notches exist yet, noting the gun has to gain a new butt every week.
Right Road Detroit Joke In House Collision
A truck driver crashed into a house where a woman stood ironing. Nervous, he asked for directions to Detroit. She quipped directions, noting the side board and piano as landmarks.
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Detroit
We Must Eat
He arrives home to his wife weeping over news that the cooked meat shop will move from the corner. He reassures her and suggests they can move too.
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Mr. Sayles
Moby. Oarrling
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Miss Glamour
Lehigh Valley
d.I.’s
Purity Pictures Inc. Supercreational
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Southern Business Leaders
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Kipling
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Robinson
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