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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parisians and their police were baffled last week by an offense little short of criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel...
Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared...
...that his friends recently gave him a business and a secretary to run it for him. Last week he was homebound (via New Orleans) on a coast-to- coast roundtrip given him by the Family Club, a San Francisco comity which each year bestows good things on some one. To Roy Folger they gave a transcontinental trip because he had never been out of California. He boarded an eastbound train and found that his own money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards, boot-blacks. They were all primed in advance. He traveled to Manhattan as the "guest...
...Annual sophomore-freshman tussle supposed to replace inter-class fights. Divided into lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight classes, three bouts are held. Object: to wrest a heavy stick, grasped at each end, from one's opponent. This year sophomores won two of the three matches...
...arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group. His Western Pacific holdings are even more extensive. Strangely, in this present battle he is the largest stockholder of his foremost opponent, the Southern Pacific...