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...ineffectual admirers. In Goin' to Town, she has seven of these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
...Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson had provided: the General had been speaking as an individual...
...LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with...
...After 17 years of faithful clerking, Samson Wallach was made cashier of the Stock Exchange firm of Halle & Stieglitz. A dignified man with greying hair, he served eight years in that capacity. Last week he was arrested for defalcation of $329,000. No stockmarket plunger, he had invested in New York City real estate and pleasant living. On a salary cut from $11,000 to $5,400 he paid $3,000 rent for a big house on Long Island, kept two automobiles, two servants. Declared Samson Wallach: "I have never gambled outside of playing the real estate market. I have...
Wednesday Evening May 23 *March, E1 Captain" Sousa *Overture to "Orpheus" Offenbach *Reve Angelique Rubenstein *Baechanale from "Samson and Delish" Saint Seems *"Giris of Baden," Waltz Komzak *The lost chord Trumpet sole: Georges Mager Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1312" Tchaikorsky *"Mille Modiste," Selection Herbert "Dubinushka," Russian Folk song Arranged by Jacchia March, "There's only One Vienna" Schrammel...