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City Room. At 2 a. m. a rewrite man took pencil and copy-paper into a telephone booth. The subdued hubbub that had filled the room all night died away to silence. Everyone crowded toward the city desk: writers, artists, "legmen" (seldom seen in the office), compositors and pressmen clustered ten deep about the chair of Benjamin Franklin, night city editor. They stood in silence, waiting and wondering with heavy hearts-jobs or no jobs? World or no World...
Home from Europe last week General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza summoned Manhattan pressmen to his office in the Metropolitan Opera House, majestically informed them that Verdi's A'ida would open the season Oct. 27. Singers: Soprano Maria Mueller, Contralto Karin Branzell, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. The Metropolitan's season in Brooklyn will begin Oct. 28 with Puccini's Boheme (Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson); in Philadelphia the same evening with Ponchielli's Gioconda (Soprano Rosa Ponselle, Tenor Beniamino Gigli...
...Pressmen waited for Senator Nye thus challenged to make a hot denial of responsibility for the ransackings and riflings. But Senator Nye made no denial. Instead he interrogated Dannenberg detectives, was told that his own investigators had tried to bribe the private sleuths to betray their employer. A roll of money was thrown down on the committee table as evidence of the bribe. Declared Chairman...
...news at the White House and the Treasury. Congress, at President Hoover's order, cut the normal income tax rate by 1% for 1929 to bolster business. Business did not respond to the cut. Federal receipts ran down hill. Last week Treasury officials compiled figures, frankly told Pressmen that they were quite helpless about a continuation of the 1% reduction for 1930 incomes. For the first 50 days of this fiscal year, U. S. revenue had fallen off $64,261,211 compared with last year, while expenditures had risen some $29,000,000. Customs receipts had been almost halved...
...Duke of York, still waiting (together with telephone operators, pressmen, doctors and Home Secretary John Robert Clynes) at Glamis Castle for the birth of a possible son and heir (TIME, Aug. 11), played golf with his father-in-law, the Earl of Strathmore...