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...Rockefeller McCormick clasped her ancestral necklace of giant emeralds. Mrs. Samuel Insull donned a new black chiffon, all spangled with gold. John McCormack buttoned himself into a new dress shirt. Photographers gave their flashlight cameras a final inspection. Such things were important last week to the 3,500 Chicagoans who crowded the Auditorium Theatre for the opening of the Chicago Opera's 17th season. For some ten million others* the second act of Verdi's Traviata was the event of the evening. (Announcement: for the next twelve successive Thursday evenings the Chicago Opera will broadcast...
...beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories: a carpet sweeper, short skirts, silk hats, goggles, a radio, an electric heater, revolver shots, an automobile, a flashlight photograph...
...Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours and a half later, after 19 hours...
...Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
...knew that he was lying in a hospital with painful injuries and that he would not testify for at least two weeks (see p. 34). Suddenly, a U. S. deputy marshal escorted a man who he thought was Mr. Ford to a front row seat, while photographers set off flashlight powders. The man laughed, admitted that he was James G. Goodrich, treasurer of Lockmoor village, double of Mr. Ford. The U. S. deputy marshal was vexed as well as hoaxed...