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...crowd in the Auditorium saw as well as heard Lily Pons. After the Lucia Mad Scene she whizzed there with a motorcycle escort, received a chrysanthemum "key to San Francisco's heart'' from its Florist-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. The popular demonstrations reminded oldtimers of San Francisco's last great musical excitement, twelve years ago when chunky Luisa Tetrazzini sang for 100,000 at Lotta's Fountain (TIME...
...Lynn, Mass., when Florist Alexander Kowera fell asleep for a moment while driving his car, the car ran into a hydrant and knocked down a telegraph pole carrying high tension wires. Water from the broken hydrant flooded the street, street lights in the manufacturing district went out, a drawbridge operated electrically was disabled, Kowera's automobile caught on fire. Alexander Kowera. burned, was fined $25 for reckless driving...
Jean de la Lune (George Marret) is currently the best cinema of French make on view in the U. S. It is the story of a young florist so unsophisticated that U. S. audiences will find it hard to believe him a Parisian. When he marries Marceline, the cast-off mistress of a friend, he takes her sulky neglect as a matter of course, never guesses at her liaisons, cheerfully supports her wastrel brother Clo-Clo. After four years of this. Marceline entrains for Nice with the latest of her lovers. Clo-Clo stays to break the news...
...last minute a brilliant red, yellow & blue macaw by the name of Toto slipped from his cage in the stately Georgian garden of Florist John T. Scheepers, flew into Alfred Kottmiller's Japanese garden and began furiously to gobble all the blossoms in sight. There was a brief moment of hysteria in the Wisteria; Toto was returned to his cage; a Navy band assisted by a soprano performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and New York's Flower Show was declared open...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...