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Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...
With all the chaotic conditions now surrounding the enforcement of the Volstead Act, why not inquire something about the special privilege accorded this association, where real gin cocktails are served at the monthly club dinners, usually attended by 100 to 150 members, and then consider the wonderful Fish House rum punch? that appeared at the last New Year's Eve celebration...
...finances were chaotic. The Government had no money on hand for its work; the foreign obligations were a tangled mess, and a complete reorganization necessarily was decided upon. A new national bank was formed and given the privilege of coining money and carrying out the Treasury functions of the Government. The contract between the Haitians and the bank provided that disputes were to be settled by arbitration and that there was to be no diplomatic intervention. The bank was originally a French corporation. The United States protested, however, against "the establishment in Haiti of a monopoly which excluded American enterprise...
...high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...
...seems that college life is inevitably too specialized, and that one thinks quite naturally of the students in the different colleges as leading one kind or another of very unnatural lives--except at Harvard, which is notoriously different. It by good fortune has been so disorganized and well nigh chaotic that it might almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship...