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...right in the old ball game every minute, and don't forget it. Didn't he tell those lousy actors where to get off when they wanted to put on that play all about taxi drivers striking. They had no business bringing things like "Waiting for Lefty" and "Within the Gates" to Boston in the first place, did they...
...when he is ignored at a large party celebrating Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very...
...Broad Street railway station in Richmond, Va. is several city miles from the Main Street station. Recently a group of six persons with ten pieces of luggage took a taxi ride between stations and on arriving in answer to a question of fares, the taxi driver said "A quarter, Sir." "Twenty-five cents?" said the gentleman spokesman of the party, glancing at the others of his party grouped hopefully about him, and at the ten pieces of luggage arranged neatly about their feet. "Twenty-five dollars" might have sounded more familiar, but the taxi man stuck bravely to his first...
Harvard Square . . . one subway; one taxi; one dock; one ticket; one bag; one porter; one boat; one cabin. Two dinners -- three dollars; one dance; one moon; one night; one Canal; one occan; headaches. Scrambled eggs -- bad coffee; one skyline; one bag; one porter; one taxi; two beggars . . . Times Square...
...sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...