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...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a fight against stubby, bowlegged Adolph Heuser of Germany, in which Rosenbloom jabbed, slapped and cuffed his game opponent for 15 rounds without closing his fist for a single honest punch; in Manhattan...
...forsworn and even New York worried about its Metropolitan, Impresario Merola announced still bigger things for San Francisco. Next autumn he will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have 5,000 operagoers here in San Francisco. They have 20,000 in New York-possibly...
Last fortnight Editor Bangs was jailed on charges of criminal libel against the banks. Out on bail he found that electricity, gas, steam had been shut off from his plant. Then Editor Bangs's readers did for him what New York Times readers probably would not do for Adolph Ochs. Women's organizations hurried to the News plant with lanterns. Farmers drove in with gasoline pressure lamps. Friends rigged a gasoline melting pot for linotype metal. Willing, brawny arms hauled an old automobile into the plant, hitched its engine to the News press. Crowds milled around the doors...
...again the prickly problem of Germany's short term loans. Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
Last week the following were news: Mutual expressions of admiration and gratitude were exchanged last week when John Daniel Hertz, 53, resigned as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee. Direct cause of his move was a conflict with President Adolph Zukor, 60 last week, over "the technical limitations upon the authority of various officers.'' Other important resignations from the company in recent months have included Sam Katz, onetime close Hertz ally. Sidney Kent, Jesse Lasky. Mr. Hertz entered Paramount's affairs 14 months ago at the "suggestion" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors...