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...their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news of the current Civil...
...venture forth barefoot. This was equally ineffective. The nurses then went into a huddle--and the patient was deprived of his bathrobe and the lower half of his pajamas. Even legal knowledge failed to cover this subject, and the patient was permanently confined to his bed--cans his Chesterfield...
...young and pretty women around. He finally gave up going behind the scenes at his friend David Garrick's theatre. "I'll come no more behind your scenes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." His letter to Lord Chesterfield, "thanking" him for his belated interest in Johnson's Dictionary, is a masterpiece of dignified resentment against patronage. Though he himself defined a pension as ''an allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling...
...high in radio advertising was reached a month ago when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
Thanks to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., makers of Chesterfield cigarets, radio listeners, starting next Tuesday, will be able to hear the highest type of symphonic music every night of the week but Sunday for some time to come. The programs will be given by expensive Leopold Stokowski and 65 members of his peerless Philadelphia Orchestra, from 9 to 9:15 (E. S. T.). First night, Nov. 28: excerpts from Parsifal. Each Philadelphia Orchestraman will earn $12 per broadcast...