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...Producer Orson Welles turned again to the gusty Elizabethans. Bawdier than three burlesque shows, but too disarmingly frank and deftly acted to be offensive, The Shoemakers' Holiday struck Broadway like a brisk wind. Good Queen Bess, never a prude, must have liked it too, and roared like a sailor...
When he heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar...
Authentic musical Wunderkinder were something new to U. S. audiences when, one evening in 1887, a sturdy n-year-old boy, 4 ft. tall and dressed in a sailor suit, marched out on the stage of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House. The solemn youngster seated himself on a high chair at a piano whose pedals had been built up to be within reach of his short legs. In the wings offstage stood the boy's mother, an opera singer of Warsaw, and his father, who had taught him to play the piano so well that...
Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy is Franklin D. Roosevelt but Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, topranking sailor afloat, must be a truly professional seadog. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson recommended to Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt for approval before Feb. 1 a batch of Navy shifts and promotions, most important of which will give the Navy a new CINCUS. To replace 60-year-old Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, scheduled for commandant of the 12th Naval District with headquarters in San Francisco, Secretary Swanson named the present Commander of the Battle Force...
Thirty-two terrible hours later Commander Henry Coyle's Coast Guard cutter Mendota picked up the last of the 21 survivors who clung to bobbing bits of debris. Captain Coufopandelis bore a painful gash on the bridge of his nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies...