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Miss Cogswell and her "Mabel" (Mrs. Ingalls) were in Berlin when a party of 99 U. S. notables passed through en route to Moscow on a tour arranged by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Next day Socialite Cogswell and Morgan-Niece Ingalls decided that they wanted to tour Russia too, hopped onto a sleeping car to catch up and join the U. S. party...
...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...
Charles Spencer Chaplin, funnyman, picked up a garden hose, squirted it. He was serious. He was helping to fight a fire at the American-Russian Eagle Club in Hollywood, Calif. His efforts were stopped when an explosion of leaking gas wrecked the building and injured eight people. Among those present and unhurt were Jack Dempsey & wife (Estelle Taylor), Richard Dix, Renee Adoree, John McCormick & wife (Colleen Moore), Marquis de la Falaise (husband of Gloria Swanson). The owner of the nightclub, Theodore Lodiginsky, 56, onetime Russian general, was seriously injured...
...election of William G. Marvin, Manhattan lawyer, as President of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce has also called public attention to that body. Its board is composed of American bankers, manufacturers, lawyers. The Committee on Russian Trade, of which Mr. Marvin is chairman, will be amalgamated with the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, and its facilities taken over by the Chamber...
...Chamber has secured the support of "many important business and banking elements in the U. S. interested in trading with Russia," and "earnestly solicits the cooperation and support of all American busi- ness interests who desire the speedy reconstruction of American-Russian trade without political prejudice or partisanship...