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...international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their European triumphs. At one point Elsa Maxwell got her licks in by announcing that Mr. Fitch had left Porter's party for hers. During these years Porter wrote many of his future song hits but - snapping his manicured fingers...
...back to Sabby, from a fairly interesting opening three months ago, the band has become a Boston sensation. Sparked by Al Morgan's wonderful bass playing, Jackie Field's allotting, Sabby recently won the Fitch Bandwagon Contest for the best local band. You may be startled when you see only eight musicians, but you'll be even more startled when they play. Due to clever and exciting orchestrations, the band sounds twice as big. If it's true that Joe Thomas, who is a fine trumpeter, is joining Sabby, the band may easily become the biggest thing since Basic...
...Manhattan's swank Abercrombie & Fitch is buying & selling secondhand English saddles, shotguns, field glasses, revolvers, because it can get no new ones...
...engineers were slow in adopting induction heating since its invention in 1916. The inventor was the late Dr. Edwin Fitch Northrup, who was exploring for any method of electrical heating which scientists might have overlooked. Early induction furnaces used low power with frequencies of 20,000 to 80,000 cycles. This limited them to laboratory and small-scale work until development in the '20s of generators capable of producing strong currents of 1,000 to 12,000 cycles-good enough for most industrial purposes...
...snowy Manhattan evening forty years ago last week handsome young Ethel Barrymore slushed from her nearby boarding house to the Garrick Theatre where she was opening in Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. At the theatre she found a big red apple from Uncle John Drew (apples are traditional at Drew-Barrymore opening nights). Next morning the papers weren't very good to Captain Jinks. But they were wonderful to Ethel, and a week later Producer Charles Frohman put her name up in lights. The first time she saw the lights, she bawled like...