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...Life is Russia runs on very much the same as in other European countries. There is nothing communistic about living conditions. Taxi fares are higher than elsewhere. It costs $10 to have tars put on a pair of shoes and 40 cents to have a white collar laundered. The Government owns the houses in which one lives, but there is nothing communistic about the rents...
Then gasping with astonishment and continuing before the reporter could reply, Miss Barrymore launched into a eulogy of Professor Baker. "Tell them I can not express how strong my support and admiration of Professor Baker is", was her parting remark as she hurried away in a taxi for the afternoon performance of "The Second Mrs. Tanquery...
...honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...
...says: "I detest those who advertise themselves as insiders. The crop of them on the Roosevelt and Wilson soil was tremendous. The sense of importance is tempting. The best of men succumb to it. I remember Colonel House sending for me one day and how I speeded my taxi to hear the fate of the world. He said to me: 'Here is something between you and me and the angels. I have given you confidences, but never one like this...
...soon as the Vestry had accepted his resignation, Dr. Grant sprang into a taxi and rushed off to the Grand Central Station, accompanied by an unidentified grey-haired woman. He was discovered that evening at Beaver Lodge in Bedford Village, N. Y. For three years the rector had been publicly engaged to Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, captivating gentle woman, in her late forties. Mrs. Lydig married W. E. D. Stokes in 1895 when she was only 16. Divorcing him later, she married a gallant officer, Major Philip M. Lydig, divorced him in Paris in 1919 for incompatibility. Because...