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...happened, music was a passion with McNair Ilgenfritz. With an income from real-estate holdings in Sedalia, Mo., he was free to compose. When he was still in his 20s, he wrote a popular piece called The Hesitation Waltz for a dance that came along just after the Bunny Hug. As the years passed, he wrote (and published) dozens of songs and began to reach for the more ambitious forms of composition. In 1944 he submitted a pair of operas to the Met, one of them based on Racine's Phèdre, the other a one-acter from...
...Mister Lee") Shubert, 78, president of Shubert Theater Corp., iron-fisted producer-landlord of the U.S. legitimate stage; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. With his brothers, Jacob ("J.J.") and Sam, Lee Shubert descended on Broadway from Syracuse, N.Y. in 1900, by the end of the booming '20s controlled an estimated $400 million in theatrical real estate. Working 15 hours a day, he survived both the Depression and the influx of movies, remorselessly squeezed out potential competitors. No man for publicity, he kept his 1936 marriage to Showgirl Marcella Swanson a secret for twelve years (until she sued...
Died. James Leo ("One-Eye") Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...
...World War I years. Steel blue of eye, trap-tight of lip, Hans von Seeckt was called "the Sphinx." The Sphinx's two rules for the Reichswehr as a political power: it must be 1) "above party," and 2) "a state within a state." In the early '20s, Seeckt kept the telephone pact with the Socialists, at the same time busied himself with building up the cadres of a new German army and a new armament industry-both in violation of the Versailles peace treaty...
...Burn This Letter." By his own admission a devotee of "Love and Poesy" from the age of 15, Burns was in his mid-20s when he developed "a wishing eye to that inestimable blessing, a wife. My mouth watered deliciously to see a young fellow, after a few idle, commonplace stories from a gentleman in black, strip & go to bed with a young girl, & no one durst say black was his eye; while I, for just doing the same thing, only wanting that ceremony, am made a Sunday's laughingstock, & abused like a pickpocket." The abuse came from...