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...following cast: Mrs. Persimmons, W. O. Faxon '32; Mrs. Hawkins, Sturtevant Burr '31; Mrs. Migrain, Francis Hoague '31; Mac Truck, N. P. Farquhar '32; Tommy Hawthorn, S. C. Dorman '33; Brock Kerreth, P. S. Carter '34; "Hermes" Austin, R. B. Harrison '32; Betty Landingstone, R. W. Kuhl '32; Anita Gale, J. H. Pearson '32; radio announcer, W. M. Marvel '30; reporter, Arthur Barrett...
...Sirovich's first dramatic effort, Schemers, was produced in September, 1924. It was a drama in three acts, a prologue and epilogue, designed to ridicule the antics of four theatre critics?"Alexander Gale." "Alan Olcott," "Perry Ammond," "A. Wood Brown''?who, asked to sit through a play's preview, ending by thoroughly damning it. There was something prophetic about Schemers. It retired after 16 performances...
Blimp in a Gale. When the wind over Manhattan whipped up to gale force Pilot Prescott Dixon of the Goodyear blirnp Columbia decided to get back to earth...
...within 50 ft. of the ground, when a sudden down-gust slapped the craft to earth. The impact knocked the engines askew, twisted the propellers into pretzels-one blade piercing the envelope. Before the ground crew could capture the ship an up-draught bounced it away again into the gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window...
...whose table sugars (Domino and Franklin) are 25% of the total U. S. cane output. Also great was Spreckels Sugar Corp. whose tablets (Caneheart) were 6%. Depression has hit both companies. Last fortnight American Sugar, whose chairman Earl D. Babst has no faith in stabilization projects, bowed to the gale and cut its dividend from $5 to $4. And last week the same gale toppled Spreckels Sugar into a receivership...