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Navy: Fifty-five ships of the Asiatic fleet, none larger than a cruiser, are commanded by Admiral C. S. Williams from his flagship, the armored cruiser Pittsburgh, at Shanghai. The destroyers Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed...
...second act is a corker. There is real drama there, too, strange as it may seem, and thrilling suspense. That haunting, beautifully-mournful Lata vian legend will chase cerie shivers up and down your back. And the mass staging is superb. Miss McCormick dances, the chorus dances, and a set of little rag dolls dance, all well...
Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick): "Belgrade, 950 miles distant from Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself...
They say that Liberty, five-cent fiction weekly of Col. Robert R. McCormick and Major Joseph Medill Patterson, proud overlords of that opulent vulgarian, the Chicago Tribune and its get-rich-quick little grub-sister, the New York Daily News, was established as an outlet for accumulated moneys upon which the income tax was becoming burdensome. Loosely speaking it was founded to "lose money...
Born. To Mathilde McCormick Oser, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, a son, Peter Max, her second child, in Switzerland. She also has a daughter, now aged three...