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...take some steps to quiet the crowd, as there was no way to cut the public address system off from the point where our broadcaster was picking it up; he tried to quiet the crowd by stating that what sounded like shots was the camera man's flashlight bombs and he was successful in quieting the crowd to the extent that the threatencvl stampede was prevented...
Into Manhattan's Town Hall where many earnest musicians have made drab little debuts and never been heard from again, there crowded one afternoon last week flashlight and newsreel photographers, traffic cops and star reporters. The occasion was just one more debut. A product of Manhattan's lower East Side was going to show how he could sing. But this one's name happened to be Alfred Emanuel Smith. He was making a debut to boost the New York Infirmary for Women & Children for which Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip's comely, energetic wife collects funds...
...pageant which many a New Yorker thought never to see repeated was given this week for the 50th time. The Metropolitan Opera House shed the dingy warehouse look which it wears through the summers. Lights from the marquees flooded the surrounding sidewalks. Limousines drove up in lines to where flashlight photographers waited to see if the passengers were important enough to "shoot." In another line, earnest men and women drably dressed waited anxiously to get standing place behind the red plush rail inside, to see the faded gold curtains open on the beginning of another winter's opera...
...crazy." they said. He came walking back, looking foolish. Next day he did the same thing. On the third day the verdict was reached. Johnny O'Brien started running again. This time the other camera men learned his reason. He had slipped into the courtroom, touched off his flashlight, whipped out his plate, left the camera and dashed for the railroad station. He had timed to a second how long it would take him to catch the last car of a train pulling out for town. Photographer Price, full of energy and not short on "brass," had done things...
From Chicago the Illinois Humane Society dispatched an indignant note to Mayor Langum, threatening prosecution. One night last week Mayor Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...