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...Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick turned to Lincoln, not to Barnum. Curious crowds stood in front of the new News building last week, eyeing a procession of laborers, beggars, children, flappers, photographers marching in light relief across the building's grey-green granite facade over the tabloidally cryptic excerpt: "He made so manv of them...
Engaged. Dolores, famed London artists' model .(Sculptor Jacob Epstein et al.); and Philip Yale Drew, actor; at London. Thrice married before, she once wrote the 'story of her busy love life for the Hearst papers. Excerpt: "One vernal spring morning Prince Hitendra [of Cooch Behar] asked me to marry him, but I was so startled at this unexpected proposal that I forgot I was already married, and told him bluntly I could never marry a black...
...Excerpt: ". . . Suddenly the lights snapped on ... and now the ether vibrated with the earth-girdling bellow of the greatest radio hook-up in history. The eulogistic phrases were familiar; so was the toneless voice of an Ex-President of the United States for whom the great inventor remembered voting. But he could hear now, since death had stripped him of his protective infirmity. Muttering sadly to himself, the old man pressed his fingers to his ears...
Sadko, produced last week 22 years after its composer's death, is one of 13 Rimsky-Korsakov operas, besides which he wrote many orchestral works and songs. Chronologically it comes between the popular Snow Maiden and Coq d'Or (best-known excerpt: "The Hymn to the Sun"). For many, Rimsky reached in Sadko the height of his musical powers. He himself thought well of it, often pointed with pride to his original use of the bylina, a recitative style borrowed from Russian epics...
...Chicago, the W. C. T. U. cut a birthday cake with ten candles, sang their anthem, "It's in the Constitution and it's there, there to stay." Excerpt...