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...felt about Harris & Ewing's feat was revealed last week when his Press contact man, Assistant Secretary "Steve" Early, issued an order that hereafter all White House photographs of the President must be made by cameras on tripods, that all shutters and bulbs must click and flash in unison and not until the President is posed. That edict marked the last step in President Roosevelt's recent retreat under a barrage of press photography...
...President, in unison with the Press, roared with laughter...
...lost his wig and appeared on the stage half in costume, out of breath, his helmet dropping down over his eyes and ears. As Helen's welcoming words were, "Here comes my beautiful Paris!" the cast burst into laughter, began to ad lib, until the audience stamped in unison. Quarreling with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines, and in a desperate attempt to rewin his audience leaned too far out the window of the set, bumped his head, fell flat on the floor. Next...
That night youths of Benito Mussolini's smartly uniformed Fascist Balilla held flaming torches aloft to light the vast, half-ruined Colosseum. In the Arena, where wild beasts once tore Christian martyrs to bits, the 15,000 veterans prayed in unison for a solid hour "for forgetfulness by Mankind of the hatreds of the World War and the re-establishment of Good Will among all peoples...
...stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously, OH-ing and AH-ing in mechanical unison. Now a tall, spare woman of 70, Maria Savage calls herself "the world's oldest chorus girl...