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Rarely does a Manhattan audience get to its feet once it has arrived and settled itself, but the better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and up on to the conductor's stand. He was 82-year-old Leopold Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public...
...vicinity of the London Stock Exchange, prowled a pickpocket. Soon he espied an old gentleman, walking solo. "Easy money," he grinned and sidled up behind. Then, drawing up abreast, his nimble fingers felt for the oldster's watch. Instanter a bony fist hit him a resounding thwack on the jaw and he went reeling into the roadway...
Then, one shining afternoon, a kindly, pink-cheeked gentleman strolled into the office, faultlessly dressed except for a coat pocket that broke the contour of his well tailored person by sticking out in unsightly bulge. Forthwith a sheriff, stationed in the office, pounced upon this benevolent oldster, searched him thoroughly. The bulge turned out to be a large, red apple. The kindly gentleman turned out to be Herman W. Booth. Straightway he was marched to gaol...
...left the St. Louis Cardinals to enter the costume of the New York Giants; Frankie Frisch, Fordham flash, will be a Cardinal instead of a Giant; veteran Eddie Collins will again strive for the Philadelphia Athletics after a lengthy interlude with the Chicago White Sox; Zack Wheat, another oldster, has joined the Athletics after years of service with the Brooklyn Robins; Eddie Roush has been traded by Cincinnati for George Kelley, former Giant; Burleigh Grimes, old Brooklyn pitcher, will throw for the Giants...
...listen, oldster, you can't eat your little sugar plum right...