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...successful musical experiment. In a cup-shaped auditorium seating 10,000, opera, grand or comic, has been given nightly. The principal singers and comedians are imported; the choruses are local talent - St. Louis boys and maidens, trained throughout the Winter months. Velvet Summer twilights in St. Louis thrill to the strains of Verdi, Mascagni, Gilbert and Sullivan; the moon, that vision of still music in the sky, looks down upon declamatory stars in tinsel and brocade...
Incidentally, some reports managed to infer that Bolsheviks were at the bottom of the "mutiny." The Chicago Tribune got a real thrill out of it with the announcement : "The naval authorities in Cavite [Philippines] this morning discovered a plot to blow up the arsenal in the Navy Yard. The situation is rapidly developing and may require the return of the Asiatic fleet in the opinion of some observers. Others do not think...
...millionaire fires a shot. That starts things going. The "mellow" drama gets a bit overripe and oozes "gooily" about the stage. The audience becomes pained when it ought to laugh, laughs when it ought to quake with fear. Needless to say the lovers are eventually left free to thrill one another with unrestricted mush without further discomfiting the audience...
...with the prospect of unsettled conditions in politics for the next four months, there is a tendency toward watchful waiting all along the line from producer to consumer. Wall Street, however, after several months of an uninteresting experience with meaninglessly see-sawing prices, is now getting the old-fashioned thrill that only a sudden decline in interest rates can give. Bonds and stocks with fixed or certain dividends are making "new highs" daily. Yet, on the basis that it takes something more than cheap money to produce rising markets and prosperity, investors are still gun-shy of industrial stocks...
...Just Published! "THE PRICE OF THINGS" by Elinor Glyn, author of "Three Weeks" Here is a novel that will open your eyes! Each succeeding chapter grows more daring. From the Magic Pen of Elinor Glyn flows a throbbing tale of audacious characters, startling incidents, sensational situations, daring scenes, thrill after thrill! So realistic is the charm, the fire, and the passion of this fiercely-sweet romance, that the hot breath of the hero seems to fan your face. Your blood races madly at the unconditional surrender of the delicious heroine. You kiss her madly and seem to draw her very...