Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Replogle denied all knowledge of where it came from. But the "Roamer" was uncoupled and detained at Rouse's Point until Dr. Wagner and Producer Ziegfeld had been fined...
Ziegfeld's Folly. Across the U. S. boundary line at Rouse's Point, N. Y., came a train of which one unit was the "Roamer," private car of Jacob Leonard Replogle, New York Steelman. Mr. and Mrs. Replogle were aboard and so were Dr. Jerome Wagner of Manhattan, a brother of U S. Senator Robert Wagner of New York, and Florenz Ziegfeld, famed girl-glorifier, producer of the perennial Follies. They had been visiting at the Wagner camp near Quebec...
...Messrs. Ziegfeld and Wagner had not arisen for the day. Neither had the Replogles. When the Customs inspector came through, Mr. Ziegfeld said yes, he had no alcoholics. The Replogles said no, they had none either. Dr. Wagner, however, spoke up and admitted he had some whiskey left in a bottle. The "Roamer's" porter confessed he had a bottle of beer...
Vice President Richmond Dean is the hero of Pullman car naming. When the Pullman Co. took over the Wagner Sleeping Car, at the exact turn of the century, it was discovered that 300 cars bore duplicate names. Mr. Dean spent a restless afternoon and evening. On a sudden inspiration, he had the Chicago public library opened. With a corps of clerks, he delved into ancient history, Greek, Roman. Within 24 hours he gave heroic and antique christening...
Musical festivals are part of the summer in Teutonic Europe. This is really Schubert's year and will be so observed in Vienna. Bayreuth, however, has its usual Wagner festival with four weeks of Tristan, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, ending August 16; Munich has a Wagner-Mozart'Festival from the end of July until August...