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...Rose outpointed her. Again last week Sweetheart on Parade faced such potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again took the blue ribbon-the last she will ever win under saddle. Henceforth Mrs. Roth will use her in harness...
...pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong to the company. Bruised and burned with acid, the victim still clutches a corsage of orchids attached to which is a note...
...music that the New York Baby Orchestra made. Round Monte Collins was so young and unsteady that he kept falling off his chair. Little Marie ("Peewee") Jarecki, her hair frizzed and beribboned to suit the band's Lord Fauntleroy uniform, could not resist pulling her music rack to pieces and peeking through it at the audience. Curly-headed Ronald Liss had to leave the stage several times. But even the smallest players had learned enough about music to read notes with a fair degree of accuracy, to beat good time when their turns came to climb...
...visit Parts, that "siren city" in his mother's eyes. Here under the guidance of will Rothenstein, he saw the world of Manet of the Meulin Rouge and of the restaurant Jupien which demonstrated its aristocratic patronage by a drawing of ladies and gentlemen hanging corenets on a coat-rack instead of hats...