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...grand tier cost anywhere from $550 to $2.750 for the season. Those who cannot afford the Covent Garden productions will have their own Coronation season of operas at Sadler's Wells Theatre in North London. These will be sung in English, include Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover and Gertrude Stein's first ballet, The Wedding Bouquet...
...which has a bit at least a foot long, and which weighs ten pounds or more, was sold by Lincoln to a cattle drover who visited his country store. When the customer asked about the axe. Lincoln replied, "I have never offered it for sale, but have no particular use for it anymore, and if anyone wanted it enough to give me one dollar and four bits for it they can have...
...Wall Street, by far the meanest and most rascally was Daniel Drew (1797-1879), who was now with, now against rough "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, flamboyant James Fisk, piratical Jay Gould. Born on a farm near Carmel, N. Y., Dan Drew enlisted in the War of 1812, became a cattle drover, later a cattle trader. Sharp-witted, grasping, unscrupulous, he was credited with inventing the "watering" of stock. This trick to up the weight of cattle just before a sale consisted of feeding the animals salt and then giving them all the water they could drink...
...Emerald, Australia, Joseph Smith, drover, flicked the head off a poisonous adder with a bull whip. The head, entangled in the snapper, swung around, bit Mr. Smith...
...Angeles, in the days when film stars thought nothing of scraping segments of mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every three Follies girls must be a preacher's daughter. Mary Lewis was adopted when...