"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin
offered a prize of £20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends.
Short, portly Alexander Woollcott,
sometime dramatic critic for the New York Times, Sun, Herald, World and colyumist for The New Yorker, announced that he would appear this autumn with Francine Larrimore (Chicago, Let Us Be Gay) in a play called Brief...
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