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...every three Follies girls must be a preacher's daughter. Mary Lewis was adopted when she was eight years old by Rev. William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark. He was moved to take this step after hearing her sing, in a childish treble, "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." Mrs. Fitch, a shrill-voiced and bony-handed woman, taught her the words of hymns, while the dominie, who had been a drummer in the Civil War, instructed her in music. Both, with passionate fervor, spanked...
...Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld's. It was during her second winter in Manhattan that she studied languages, opera roles. Last summer in Paris Otto Kahn heard her sing a selection which was not "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." He arranged an audience with Manager Gatti...
...small blue and gold airplane postured above them in a sunbeam. It climbed against a curtain of cloud, glided in minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
...mile for automobiles-Malcolm Campbell of Great Britain, in a 12-cylinder Sunbeam; at Brooklands Course, England. Time 23.06 sec (156.11 m. p. h.) (Unofficial...
...cream. A millionaire at his death, he died as he would have liked to-in a hot race. At Brooklands, England, another racing figure was killed in action. Scorching down the famed speed saucer's straightaway, 122 miles an hour, Dario Resta's Grand Prix Sunbeam, with the power of 160 horses, went out of his control, skidded for 300 yards, shot sidewise over the saucer's edge, crashed an iron fence, nose-dived into the ground, righted, burst into flames. Resta was hurled headlong with terrific force against a fence-post, semi-decapitated, horribly mangled...