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...charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull gawper flipped a cigaret and Pouf! The seaplane Santa Maria was no more...
Taken to the Adolphus Hotel (owned by Adolphus Busch, grandson of the famed brewer) Capt. Coste mingled tact with candor in writing of his cross-country flight for the New York Times: "It was not hard-pouf, pouf, it was nothing at all! . . . I do not think anyone ever made $25,000 more easily. . . . The reception we received here was marvelous! Never has anyone so generously . . . greeted us, not even in New York. . . . I wish to give thanks to these Dallas people-'tres gentil...
...flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods! It is no disgrace in the United States for a banker or a businessman to go into bankruptcy three or four times...
...Polish dances, Moniuszko 3. Waltz, "Barcarole," Waldteufel 4. Selection, "Mikado," Sullivan 5. Overture, "Si j'etais Roi,:" Adam 6. Selection, Carmen," Bizet 7. Violin solo, Mr. Jacques Hoffmann, Tschaikowski 8. March, "Slav," Tschaikowski 9. Overture, "Orpheus aux Enfers," Offenbach 10. Waltz, "The Mountaineers," Ziehrer 11. Selection, Piff, Paff, Pouf," Schwartz 12. March, "Ei Capitan," Sousa
...Ballet music, "Faust," Gounod 3. Selection, "Iolanthe," Sullivan 4. Waltz, "Faschingskinder," Ziehrer 5. Overture, "Barber of Seville," Rossini 6. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 7. "The Deluge," Violin, solo, Mr. Hoffmann. Saint-Saens 8. Selection, "Carmen," Bizet 9. Overture, "Pique Dame," Suppe 10. Waltz, "Espana," Waldteufel 11. Selection, "Piff, Paff, Pouf," Schwartz 12. March, "El Capitan," Sousa