Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Nora Bayes, 47, famed and beautiful actress in vaudeville and musical comedies, from the results of an abdominal operation performed at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance...
This opera has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York...
...comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song. Two lovers and the Sultan are the Romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA" ADELE VASA...
Weighing 216 pounds, George Herman Ruth, 35, joined the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., to start his fourteenth year in pro baseball. Dazzy Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, held out for a new contract at $20,000 a year, insisted on a clause that would allow him to play golf for one day after each game he pitched. "I lose," he said, "about twelve pounds in every game...
...Brooklyn, from the Kings County Hospital, Joan, a police-bitch, the property of a doctor, ran away or was stolen by a motorist. Boys and girls in the children's ward of the hospital moaned with grief. Having escaped from her abductor, or having decided of her own will to return to the Kings County Hospital, Joan fell through the ice into a pond on her way home. A policeman, attracted by her noise, pulled Joan out of the ice and returned her to the bedridden children, who were delighted...