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Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change...
...museum founder, Mr. Huntington is chiefly responsible for the Museum of the Hispanic Society of America and the Museum of the American Indian in New York. Last year he set aside a section of his estate near Camden, S. C. as a sanctuary for ancient mules and offered to pay $20 apiece for broken down jacks and jennies until the mule migration from North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama became more than he could cope with...
...incidence of infantile paralysis in the community, forbade all public and private (including parochial and Sabbath) schools opening before Sept. 20, closed "all other places where persons under 18 may congregate." Neighboring communities cowered. In lower Merion Township every one under 21 is forbidden entree to public assembly places.* Camden, N. J., across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, decided not to be frightened, permitted its 30,000 pupils to enter classes this week. Gettysburg, Pa. also postponed school opening...
...Camden, N. J., Merchant William E., Cross lost $75, advertised his loss, received the following unsigned letter from an unemployed man: "I have found your money, but I expect to keep it until I get a break. ... I am going to borrow the money until I get back to work again, then I will repay you with interest...
Married, Washington Dodge II, 24, business editor of TIME; and Helen Kent Hubbard, 22, of Middletown, Conn.; in Camden, Maine...