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Last year, when inconvenient railroad schedules in New England and the South annoyed him no end, Barnstormer Wagner got a new idea for barnstorming tours. He decided to take opera to smaller U. S. cities by the busload. Picking Rossini's oldtime Barber of Seville as the most portable opera (two scenic sets, chorus optional) that he could think of, he chartered a big, shiny Greyhound-type bus, remodeled its roof to accommodate a ten-foot pile of scenery, and started signing up a busworthy crew of singers from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. He called his new venture...
...college students who jammed Easton's gymnasium thought the bus-toted Barber was swell, spent ten minutes bellowing and pounding for curtain calls. When it was over, huge Driver Tim Ward loaded his flats and backdrops with an eye to low bridges, trundled his busload of opera on to Huntington...
...rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted...
German shipping stocks slumped so badly on Berlin 'Change at news of the new Nazi whimsy that Realmleader Hitler decided at the last moment to lend his prestige to the launching of an 18,000-ton ship at Bremen, astonished everyone by his unexpected arrival, ran down a busload of actors on his way home (see below...
...first Easter dawn service on a wide clearing in the hills of "The Priory." They arranged for four trumpeters to blow sweetly at dawn's arrival, a chorus of 200 to sing "The Messiah" clergymen from Huntington, Brooklyn and Manhattan to speak. Congregations would come by the busload. The Long Island R. R. would put on a "Sunrise Special." After the service, worshippers would file through Col. Todd's studio to behold his blond Christ...