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...city's jovial sunburned holiday makers peered at their curious garb; at Grand Monarch A. F. Ittner of St. Louis, who strutted in front, at his personal aid, the Cannibal King,* at the Ram of Kamram†; at the flowing robed Islams of the Hindoo Goosh Grotto of Hamilton, Ontario; at the regal representatives of the 46 other grottos. The Prophets drank orange nip on the million dollar pier; listened to concerts, speeches. From Washington came an airplane, bearing a message from President Coolidge to the Grand Monarch; bore back a message from the Grand Monarch to President Coolidge...
...place at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: 1. March, "On to Bangor" R. R. Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
...Story. Selma Thallinger, New York shopgirl, supplements her daily earnings by teaching every evening in the "Merry Grotto," an East Side dance-hall which provides partners for unattached men, under the guise of giving them "dancing lessons." According to the author, she is "innocent" in spite of the fact that she is the mistress of both Pete Ravanni, the proprietor, and Max Lisenco, his assistant. But she is discontent with this lot and decides to throw them both over. The very evening she does this, "Crazy Man" appears...
This evening, however, he craves a new experience. So he tries entering the Merry Grotto in workingman's clothes. He is thrown down the stairs by Ravanni, Lisenco and Mike Scolleri, a bruiser who runs the cloak room of the establishment. He comes back again, is again thrown out. This happens six times. As he mounts the stairs for a seventh time, he discovers that the defense has been worn out by his persistence. By this time he is an enthusiastically worshipped hero. Especially to Selma, who sees in him an ally to her own determinations...
...statuette, thought to be 60,000 years old, is being exhibited in Paris. It is a woman's figure carved in the stone age from the tusk of a mammoth, and was discovered in a grotto at Lexpugne, Haut-Garonne, France, by M. de Saint-Pelier...