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Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10? wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke...
...People. The exhibition had been directed by Edward Hungerford, journalist, magazine writer. The drum major of the centenary band was one F. E. Czarnowsky, who for 31 years was drum major of the 5th regiment Maryland National Guard, which he joined as drummer-boy in 1868. Chief Two Guns White Calf, an Indian whose avaricious profile appears on all U. S. five-cent pieces, was brought to the fair with some of his tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest...
Monkeys. When an orchestra, attempting to tabulate animalian reactions to music, played in the monkey gallery at the Philadelphia Zoo last week, the little brown persons were bewildered and enchanted. As the instruments were tuned, the merry apes danced in their cages and cocked their ears. When the drummer tapped his drum, mandrill and marmoset cowered and wept with an uncontrollable fear. As the violins swept up in the frail music of a waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered...
...whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
...content to be so. As such I thank you for publishing the letter [TIME, May 23] in which Mr. Herbert Milton Maxwell so cogently points out that since the President of Mexico has a private train costing ?375,000 our own President should not go about as might a "drummer" or "traveling salesman...