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Otto Klemperer, seven-foot German conductor here for an engagement as guest leader of the New York Symphony, walked on the stage of Mecca Auditorium, bent his big frame to bow to a fascinated audience, turned to the orchestra. He lifted his great arms and the entire orchestra fell under the shadow of his wings, very capable wings that have sheltered most of the prominent orchestras of Europe. New Yorkers, who like to see as well as hear, watched him fascinated, saw him hunch his great head down between his shoulders, pick with his long fingers short staccatos from...
...flower store, Chicago. At his interment were 26 truckloads of flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal-from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services" were held in an undertaker's small chapel. No priest officiated, so one Louis Altiere, lieutenant...
...Princess Radjah", with her famous "Cleopatra" dance, accompanied by a seven-foot snake, furnished a sufficiently thrilling curtain-piece. There was but one regret; that Billy B. Van didn't get a chance to finish that joke about the girl in Paris...
Robert W. Edgren, of the University of California, has again beaten the world hammer throwing record. From the regulation seven-foot ring he hurled a 16-pound hammer 148 feet 5 inches a few days ago. This is more than three feet farther than the world's record and a foot farther than Edgren's previous best trial throw, which was discredited by Mitchell, late of the New York Athletic Club...
Eighteen colleges were represented at the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes held in New York on Saturday. It was voted to allow a seven-foot run in the hammer throwing, to hold the preliminaries of the field events and the 440 yds. run in the morning, and to adopt new rules to govern bicycle races. The treasurer reported a balance of $15,000 in the treasury. H. M. Wheel-wright was elected president of the association...