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From the world of music came Titta Ruffo, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera; Coe Glade of the Chicago Opera; Viennese Tenor Otto Fassell; Vera Schwarz of the Berlin State Opera. Harald Kreutzberg, Martha Graham, Patricia Bowman danced. Apelike Funnyman Dr. Rockwell and Weber & Fields excited laughter. There was deep-voiced DeWolf Hopper, always willing to do "Casey at the Bat." The Wallendas, whom John Ringling found in Cuba, performed on the high wire. The Six Bronetts clowned. From radio came the successful Sisters of the Skillet. From the screen came Taylor Holmes. There were acrobats and jugglers...
...midnight last week Dr. Gonzalo Vazquez Vela, newly elected Governor of Vera Cruz, was inaugurated amid the bursting of skyrockets. Thirty-six hours later Governor Vela signed his first decree. It created the rank of Favored Son of Vera Cruz, bestowed this rank and a medal (to be designed and struck as soon as possible) on "all citizens who heroically resisted the American invasion of Vera Cruz...
...hearts in the persons of Grandpop Strawn and a bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves, too, and so credibly that the prisoner is discharged. The Night of June 13, written by Vera Caspary. is bitter against meddling women and tender toward badgered men. Good shots: the kaleidoscope of Glenwood Park after Mrs. Curry's suicide, showing each household finishing a statement begun by the last; Grandpop Strawn letting chickens into the garden; Mrs. Curry's slightly crossed eyes peering...
Married. Alfredo Codona, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey aerial trapezist; and his partner Vera Bruce; in San Antonio...
Engaged. Alfredo Codona, trapeze per, former, widower of Lillian Leitzel, famed. trapezist who died last year (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931); and Vera Bruce, a member of his troupe; in St. Louis...