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...massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts, the ankuses, the jasmine garlands, the gas flares-but not missing was the public's immediate acclaim. Though ''Mister John" Ringling was too sick to come up from Florida, the opening of his circus on this 50th Anniversary of his and his six dead brothers' entrance into show business was a polychromatic paragon of perfection...
...matter that comes so perilously close to home, he feels that he must speak out. To be brief, he considers the provision for 3.2 per cent peer the most piffling undersized insult ever thrown in the face of a great people, and he cannot understand the careless acclaim with which it has been accepted. He is driven to the mournful conclusion that Americans never had any discrimination in their taste for beer, or that they have forgotten it during their period in the local Wasteland. Not only in this, but in all alcoholic matters, they seem to lack the rightful...
Illinois. From Chicago to Springfield Democrat Henry Horner, bachelor, took his own male cook and valet. On the probate bench for 18 years he won wide acclaim for his efficient management of estates. Governor Horner plumes himself on having one of the world's largest private Lincoln libraries...
There remains no baritone of potentially historic acclaim save Tibbett who, essentially practical and intelligent about his career, wastes no time worrying about his temperament but proceeds methodically, laboriously to equip himself for great things. He knows that sooner or later he will inherit some of Scotti's roles. He has already sung Scarpia in road performances of Tosca. He would like to sing Falstaff. the role Scotti was singing that night eight years ago when the audience suddenly started shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" stopping the show for 20 minutes because it liked the young American who sang the part...
Eleven months of the year motorcars may be prosaic things of steel and glass. But in January, when the automobile fairs are held throughout the land, this prima donna of the industrial stage is greeted with acclaim and if her appearance succeeds she is well rewarded...