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...star will ever be realized unless the cinema itself evolves its own form of grand opera. His voice, for all its beauty, is small-not an opera voice. Yet such a singer as Novarro would be far less absurd on a grand opera stage than the rotund divas and stout heroes of grand opera would be before the camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring into existence a new type of opera star...
...charge of the Prohibition Bureau's correspondence school for Dry agents is short, stout, Pennsylvania-Dutch Harry Morgan Dengler, 48. An oldtime Pennsylvania and Montana teacher, he learned sleuthing in the Intelligence Service of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, and was transferred to the Prohibition Bureau ten years ago. He went with the Bureau from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice this year (TIME, July 7), will continue his courses as adjuncts to Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock's new personal instruction plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week a newshawk obtained...
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
...Like stout Cortes, when with eagle eyes
First U. S. Saengerbund was organized in 1835 at Philadelphia, first Saengerfest held in 1849 at Cincinnati. Thereafter all over the country the German music germ spread. In the West during the woolly days of the Gold Rush, a Dr. Maleck, stout fellow of the rough frontier, led miners, gamblers, traders, hangers-on in rollicking Teutonic song. For the rest of the century, German societies sprang up, lived a short time, died. It was not until 1905 that the present Pacific Saengerbund was born. Robert Lorentz was its organizer, G. G. Reigger its leader. In 1910 the first Pacific fest...