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Rooks, King & "Tote...
Strolling down from the stand a little later, the King-Emperor approached with frank curiosity a "tote" or totalizator, a modification of the French pari mutuel betting machine, which has been introduced at British meets since the onset of His Majesty's illness. On a series of automatic dials the machine shows the total of bets on each horse up to the moment of starting and the grand total of bets. On the basis of these totals the totalizator automatically sets the odds. In "tote" or pari mutuel betting a percentage of the whole sum wagered is deducted...
...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
...Bellamy, shrewd secretary to a shrewd divorce lawyer, marries a millionaire lumberman. While the organist fingers, "O Promise Me," she figures the alimony. Knowing this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful picture...