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Many new singers are on the Chicago list this year. The sopranos are: Frieda Leider of the Berlin Staatsoper, in her heyday, like Olszewska and well-established in Europe; Margarita Salvi, young, slender and Spanish; Eva Turner, English and ebullient; Alice Mock, a Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year...
...Tweed's heyday, which Grand Sachem Voorhis well remembers, leading citizens of New York were not above working with Tammany. John Jacob Astor vouched for Tweed in a crisis, and escaped three years' taxes. Elihu Root was one of Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed...
...March 1925, sex was in its heyday...
Since it is avowedly "American", even containing slang expressions which had their American heyday some four years ago it cannot be taken as the English counterpart of the Lampoon. The English, however, should also be warned that the Lampoon is far from the typically American undergraduate comic publication. For such examples one must seek one of the many professionally collegiate periodicals...
...28th annual International Live Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...