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...insanity or congestion in the head but pain in the tongue, sometimes inducing chronic sore throat, is the oboist's occupational hazard. Wind & brass players are subject to emphysema (enlargement of the lungs). Curious readers Ire referred to "Occupational Diseases of Musicians" by Robert Pollak in the February issue of Hygeia...
...Rights Reserved (by Irving Kaye Davis; Joseph Pollak, producer) is a farce treatment of the home life of a serious man of letters and the Single Standard. Philip Frampton (William Harrigan) has been away from home three months. During that time he has written his wife Josie (Violet Heming) one letter. That letter grew to such proportions that he sent it not to Josie but to the American Mercury. Meantime Josie has received a bite from what Sherwood Anderson calls "the writing bug" and has turned out a salacious best-seller called A Naked Woman. The book is a case...
...opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...
News: "Dorothy Pollak, the wistfully beautiful widow of poor Joe (I-Wish-I-Was-in-t he-Grave-with-Him) Pollak, wrapped in grief and shedding tears like pearls, took the stand to describe her musketry, the gentlest wife who ever shot a husband. . . . 'The State has not even established that a murder was committed,' said Lawyer O'Brien. And many thought he was about to argue that Mr. Pollak had been shot in the open season for Pollaks...
After a half-hour's consideration of evidence, the court acquitted Mrs. Pollak. For several moments she remained dumbly in her chair because she had not grasped the meaning of the word "acquitted." Later she found her tongue, declared: "Judge Fisher is a nice man. He looked at it sensibly." Then she signed a contract to appear for three weeks at the State-Congress Theatre in burlesque at $1,000 a week. Cousin Victoria Schultz got only $250 a week...