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Boston offers a lucrative field for the business of vice. Competition is keen. Thriving "places of business" crowd one another in Boston's South End. Philadelphia and New York rings vie with local operatives for the Boston trade. But last week the Boston vice industry suffered a slump. Federal agents descended on South End "houses." The hostesses, forewarned, had fled. Only two women were taken in: Rose ("Rosie Big Lips") Restant and Pauline ("Queen Polly") Levine...
...Welsh choir from Port Talbot captured the principal choral event. The judges, watchful of timbre, balance, locution, placed Pennsylvania's Anthracite Choir fifth. Important as usual was the bardic contest, in which young poets vie to win fame in the lyric annals of Wales. Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad...
Eight fraternities will be represented by teams in the relay race this afternoon; and over forty individual aspirants will vie for the titles in the other events. They will begin at 3.30 o'clock, and will consist of a 100-yard relay race, diving "6", 50-yard free style, 50-yard back stroke, and 50-yard breast stroke...
...vie in size with Zukor's Paramount building may be the projected William Fox's Vox Theatres Corp. building, to be erected at an anticipated cost of $10,000,000 on Broadway at 47th Street...
...Dupuy, nee Helen Browne of New York, took over management of her husband's papers on his sudden death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse...