Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters, constitutes the plot of a well...
...Manhattan, Chairman Otto Kahn opened his house for an inaugural reception. Guests heard him speak on the scope of Schubert 'Week, heard Olga Samaroff outline the plans of a Schubert Memorial to help talented young U. S. musicians, heard Young Pianist Jerome Rappaport in evidence, heard the Musical Art Quartet. For refreshment then, there were vast quantities of paté de fois gras, chicken à la king, ice cream, cakes, cigarets, coffee. Some imagined later they had been served Scotch highballs, champagne cocktails, mixed by Brother Felix Kahn...
...does happen on occasion that they will run a passenger ragged around the deck. One excitable prima donna one day heard a rap on her door, asked "Who is there?" Came a voice: "It is I." Thoughtlessly she opened the door. In poured the reporters and cameramen from whom she was hiding...
Died. Baron O'Neill, 89. head of the O'Neills of County Antrim, Ireland; in Eralerstown, County Derry, Ireland. Oldsters said they heard the wail of the banshee on the shores of Lough Neagh, the night before his death...
Motors. Motorcar makers last week heard of 3 consolidations, completed or pending: 1) Hupp Motor Car Corp. (possibly controlled by William C. Durant) and Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. (possibly controlled by the railroading brothers Van Sweringen), forming a $130,000,000 business; 2) Chrysler Corp. and Commercial Credit Co. (Baltimore), to provide instalment sale systems for Chrysler cars; 3) Humber, Hillman and Commer (British) motor interests, as Humbers, Ltd. Object: competition with U. S. manufacturers. Capital...