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North. Under Agua Caliente's bizarre red roofs and stucco walls are gambling rooms where cinema celebrities and others who can afford to lose are encouraged to expand the limits at roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua...
Baron Walter von Mumm onetime "champagne king" of Rheims, whose fortunes had withered until he was living in a $10-a-week Manhattan rooming house, shot himself above the heart in the Long Island home of his oldtime friend William H. vom Rath. A note read: "Bury me as I am and keep this out of the newspapers." But Baron von Mumm rallied and gave promise of recovering, just as he survived after Mrs. Marie Van Rensimer Barnes shot him in 1912 in her Paris apartment; just as he survived the wounds of Russian bullets when he was a German...
Married. James Thornton, son of President Sir Henry Thornton of Canadian National Railways; and a Fraulein Elena Mumm von Schwarzenstein; in Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...
...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...
...ridge, they reached a previously unclimbed peak on the summit of which they built a cairn as a record of their presence. To this unnamed summit the name of "Mount Harvard" was joyously though unofficially attached by the members of the climbing party. In the meantime another group ascended Mumm Peak and looked down from its summit upon Mural Glacier, one of the finest of the glaciers in that part of the mountains...