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...underground level. A theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof garden are novel features of the construction, which is now going on between Fifth and Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Streets. Photographs show excavation proceeding at night and a rivet heater. In the interior scenes shadows flicker and flare with Hogarthian exaggeration...
...Willard S. Karn, natty Manhattan oil-heater salesman and fat Philip Hal Sims of Deal, N. J.: the contract pair championship of the National Bridge tournament; at Philadelphia. Salesman Karn, who also holds (with Mr. Sims, Oswald Jacoby, and David Burnstine of Manhattan's Knickerbocker Whist Club) the Vanderbilt Cup for teams of four and the National "Masters" championship, is the only man in the history of bridge tournaments to have all three major titles at the same time...
Visiting Eva Le Gallienne, actress-directrix of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, on her farm near W'eston, Conn., was her good friend Actress Josephine Hutchinson. They went to the basement with a maid to light the gas water heater. The heater exploded, knocked Miss Le Gallienne unconscious, burned her and Miss Hutchinson severely. The maid, also scorched, ran for the gardener. The gardener put out the flames, took the three women to Norwalk hospital. The maid was found not seriously injured, the actresses will recover without disfigurement...
Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
Price $1,025 up. Oldsmobile. Redesigned Fisher bodies, finer upholstery, downdraft carburetion, an automatic manifold heater, carburetor-intake silencer, improved transmission with a new "quiet second gear." Price...