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Paris Green. Come Down, My Evenin' Star was the work of a tunesmith named John ("Honey") Stromberg, who wrote for the revues at the old Weber & Fields Music Hall when David Warfield, Fay Templeton, DeWolf Hopper and Willie Collier were among its stars. When Lillian made her debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island...
Evergreen. Long after Honey Stromberg's death, she sang his song for Diamond Jim Brady at his oyster and beefsteak gorges at Bustanoby's. John D. Rockefeller once paid $500 to hear her sing it. In 1912, at a Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...
...latest game, played between Paul Perkins' stalwarts and Bob Bryan's intrepids, finished with the latter team on top, 7 to 6. In these contests newcomers Henry Newman, Ray Eder, Hanley Stromberg, and Ben Burr looked fairly good. The squads have been divided up evenly and everyone was given a chance to rush his opponent around...
Eliot: le Greer; lt Bremer; lg Stromberg; c Baer; rg S. Gordon; rt D. Gordon; re Ambrose; qb Brady; lhb Coe; rhb Dorsey; fb Chenowith...
...boom in the radio set business. Already busy selling FM sets are Stromberg-Carlson, General Electric, Scott Radio. Ready to leap into the market are Stewart-Warner, Zenith, Pilot, at least three others. Ranging from $70 up, FM sets in the higher brackets will supply receivers for both the old type of broadcasting (amplitude) and the new (FM). Optimistic estimate of sales within a year...