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There came to Manhattan a special delegation from Kansas City, a delegation that included Mayor Beach and many substantial citizens. There were taxi-loads of flowers. There were 10,000 people beside themselves to get into the Metropolitan Opera House, and arrogant mounted police out to control them. There were more than 5,000 people turned away, nine of whom took their disappointment so ill-humoredly that they were arrested for being disorderly. There were those who offered $100, $150 for a seat, one man who paid $25 for admission to stand. And through it all, a person...
...illustrations by J. O. Whedon are also contributions. The first, a caricature of winged Mercury perched on a fire-plug with beckoning finger, is entitled "Hey! Taxi!" and the other, drawn in collaboration with Cannon, represents a "Design for a Hall Closet by Cecil B. de Mille". The palatial proportions of the chamber featured are a perfect burlesque upon the grandeur so dear to the heart of the cinema producer. It is to be hoped that the President-elect of the Lampoon will continue the contribution generiously to the pages of the publication for which he will be responsible...
...said Mr. Nathan, closing the taxi door, "which it will be," and added smugly, "We must try to be fair...
...taxi whose driver shrilly squawked his little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...
Mlle. Cecile Sorel, since the death of Bernhardt perhaps the most celebrated of French actresses, whirled up in another taxi. To her intimates she confided that "Tiger" Clemenceau had just read aloud to her a play which he has written to immortalize her life...