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With the help of three-inch elevated shoes, Tito Schipa looked all of five-feet-five last week at Paris' Salle Pleyel. When he sang L'Elisir d'Amore and Don Giovanni he brought the house down. He gave so many encores that for a while it...
Make It Snappy! When the ministers and their staffs filed through gilded double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry...
As dawn rose over the city many still sat half-naked in the doorways along La Salle Street. Others, begrimed and barefooted, stood weeping in the lobby of the City Hall. Forty-three blanketed bodies lay there on the marble floor, their feet carefully tagged, beneath a sign which read...
Up the street firemen coiled hoses, took down ladders. Morning traffic began to flow. From across the street the La Salle looked undamaged; only a few sheets dangling limply from windows recalled the nightmare.
Almost every detail of the La Salle Hotel tragedy was duplicated in miniature four days later when fire swept the 55-year-old, 150-room Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, Iowa. The Canfield fire also was discovered shortly after midnight in a cocktail room called the Red Lounge. It swept out...