Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the most certain thing in China, last week, was the kidnaping at Tientsin of one Aaron Brenner, 40-year-old Manhattan fur buyer, by bandits who asked $500.000 ransom.
Is she beautiful? Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian? Last week Manhattanites asked these questions about Maria Lani, French cinemactress. For in the august Brummer Gallery was an exhibition of 51 representations of this one woman. She was "done" in marble, metal, paint, on a platter...
Bits of news about last fortnight's Chicago opera opening had post-mortem discussion last week, concerned the following:
Soprano Mary McCormic, native of Amarillo, Tex., protegee of Mary Garden, sang Juliet sketchily. A few days previously she had announced her engagement to Prince Serge Mdivani, the about-to-be-divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri. Said she: "When I met the Prince I knew I was headed toward...
*Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso...