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...their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...
Although seamen might be grateful for Mr. Hutton's propagating the right sort of sentiment toward keeping sailors employed, U. S. shipbuilders view with alarm the fact that Mr. Hutton, like many another U. S. millionaire, has his pleasure craft built abroad. Mr. Hutton's Hussar I, now in use, was built at Kiel in 1923. Now abuilding, also at Kiel, is Hussar II. It will cost $1,250,000. Since labor is the largest cost in yacht building (80%), and since German shipyard labor costs 22? an hour-48? less than the U. S. scale- Mr. Hutton...
Edward F. Hutton, Wall street broker, drydocked his famed auxiliary schooner yacht Hussar II at Brooklyn, prepared to be yachtless until his new boat, a square-rigged four-master, largest pleasure sailing vessel in the world abuilding in Ger many, is completed next September. The new craft will be 322 ft. over all, a crew of 70 men will...
Eleanor Painter is the featured member of the company and rightly so if only for the number and variety of changes her triple role requires. She appears as a ballet dancer, a gypsy, and a Hussar officer, and the combination keeps her on the stage most of the evening. Thanks no doubt to her long experience in grand opera, the music offers little difficulty and she sustains her part consistently well, particularly when appearing as Irma, the gypsy girl. Sara Bair as Pompom deserves mention for a voice well above the average expected of a supporting singer...
Died. Baron George Washington, 73, fifth cousin of the first U. S. President; near Graz, Austria. A retired Austrian Hussar officer, he refused to take up arms against the U. S. His last days were spent in his mountain castle, a bachelor, surrounded by six great hounds...