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...office and a city street. Time is an evening in February 1933, just before the bank moratorium. Doomed hero is one McGafferty, No. 1 Banker of the U. S. While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic, and the crowds in the street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their conference is going on a group of unemployed, led by a blind man, breaks into the office. McGafferty defies them; the bankers cower. But the blind leader reads McGafferty aright, tells...
...prima donnas have superstitions and Lotte Lehmann is no exception. In her dressing-room she keeps photographs of "mein Vater, meine Mutter, mein Mann und mein Bruder Fritz." She kisses them all and takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown...
...hour the curious architecture of University Hall assumes a terrible significance; its resemblance to a ferry-boat has now a gruesome appropriateness. We now know that it was intended to symbolize the barge of Charon carrying its freight from shore to shore. We are too dejected even to mutter maledictions on the head of the architect possessed of this ghastly sense of humor. It is all rather...
...late John Singer Sargent would occasionally mutter into his beard that "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession!" and go off to do his best work, loose inspired landscapes in watercolor. Frank O. Salisbury has little time for such relaxation. He is not only a court painter but a ceremonial painter, commissioned to record on enormous canvases such scenes as The King's Offering in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey; The Official Picture of H. R. H. Princess...
...success, Magician Heger proposed to go to England, collect the $25,000 prize offered by the Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing...