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Nine feet square and twelve feet high, the castle took nine years to build, cost Miss Moore $435.000. Each room is built around some fairy character, such as Cinderella or Sinbad. A 15-in. solid gold organ plays, a silver nightingale sings by electricity. A golden chandelier is hung with pear-shaped diamonds, lighted by electric bulbs the size of wheat grains. Pumps in the dungeon and tanks in the turrets make fountains splash, chimes tinkle. For the library many an author penned a tiny book in miniature. For the walls artists painted miniature murals. Miss Moore will take...
Tremont Temple--"Sinbad, the Sailor." Tony Sarg's Marionettes. A saga with some strings attached...
...gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving bargains, has been known to refuse several thousand dollars to sing for five minutes at a private party on the ground that at a party his status must be either that of host or guest. His best shows were Bombo and Sinbad, his pictures The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. Last winter he improved his standing by marrying Ruby Keeler, a popular little tap-dancer tutored by Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
Died. Eddie Foy, 70, famed well-loved buffoon, star of Cinderella (1889), Sinbad, Ali-Baba, and many another early musical comedy, hero of the Iroquois Theatre fire when he was the last man to leave the stage; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo., while on a farewell vaudeville tour...
...gallery. In the oil painting room, two of the notable canvases are Marooned, and the Flying Dutchman-formidable pirate figures with Pyle's characteristic contrasts of color masses and sombre realism. There are Revolutionary War scenes, one small watercolor, illustrations for Pyle's own stories, A Modern Sinbad and the Pilgrimage of Truth (the latter painted on mahogany), and pen-and-ink sketches for many stories and articles originally published in Harper's Magazine...