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...Budapest, Irene Barsony inherited a- fortune, began spending it, then began worrying, fearing her father had left unpaid debts. To Olga Plepar, medium, she went, talked to the spirit of Geza Barsony, her dead father. He gave her a list of creditors, with amounts owed to each. To the creditors she went, paid out her fortune to the last pengo (18?) though there was no proof of any loans. To Medium Plepar went the police, informed by Irene Barsony's fiance; Medium Plepar & her creditor accomplices were apprehended, returned one-third of the Barsony money...
...Olga Mead, widow of the late great Architect William Rutherford Mead (McKim, Mead & White) gave Benito Mussolini 10,000 lire ($500) in gratitude for his aid in transporting the body of her husband to Rome for burial. Cyril Clemens, cousin of Mark Twain and president of the Mark Twain Society of Webster Groves, Mo., gave him as token of esteem the society's gold medal, inscribed: Mussolini-Great Educator...
...Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges Thill of the Paris Opera; Hans Clemens of Berlin. Baritones Claudio Frigerio, native of Paterson, N. J., trained abroad. Basso: Ivar Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
Year ago all Brazil was on tiptoes of excitement when its champion, svelte, olivaster Senhorita Olga Bergamini De Sa entered the International Beauty Contest at Galveston, Tex. (TIME, June...
...world's heavyweight championship on a foul from Jack Sharkey in Manhattan (TiME, June 23). One does not have to understand German to follow the occasional dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with...