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Notification sprang from Marion, 0., that Mrs. Florence Kling Harding may be named delegate-at-large from Ohio to the next Republican National Convention. If so, she will be required to file a declaration with the Secretary of State of Ohio, naming the candidate she will support...
...Chicago Opera Company, as all know, sprang out of the storied Ham- merstein venture. The formidable Oscar, putting on opera at the Man- hattan Opera House of New York, gave the Metropolitan management many bad dreams. But Hammerstein had no millionaires behind him. Opera war cost money. Finally he sold out to the Metropolitan. His chief orchestra conductor had been the shrewd and able Cleofonte Campanini, who now took the Hammerstein idea to Chicago. Chicago is the natural enemy of New York. Chicago would rival New York on the heights of opera. Campanini understood Americans as no American understands them...
...black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play. Rosie is there-and Feldman the unscrupulous lawyer-and Irma Potash's love affair with Boris Anndrieff. Barney Bernard...
...this connection a political mud-slinging contest sprang up. Commissioner Wallis was a Wilson appointee. Commissioners Tod and Curran were Harding appointees. Mr. Tod was described by Ambassador Geddes as "a gentleman of independent means . . . who holds office for patriotic reasons. Any country might be proud to point to him as one of its officials." But Republican Mr. Curran did not treat Democratic Mr. Wallis with equal consideration. He accused the former Commissioner of using his post for political ends and denied that Ellis island was " a vale of tears." Mr. Curran further added that " Americanization " speeches took place...
Opposition to Mr. Baruch's plan sprang up at once, however. J. M. Mehl, who is secretary of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., declared there was no possibility of their buying the Armour Grain Co. for two good reasons. First, the farmers lack the money, and, second, the farmers are determined to set up their own grower-owned and controlled agencies. The American Farm Bureau Federation issued a similar statement. Mr. Baruch declined further comment...