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...Angeles Enrico Caruso Jr., 26, loud, barrel-chested son of the late great tenor, is taking singing lessons. His instructor: Adolfo de la Huerta, onetime Provisional President of Mexico. Said Junior Caruso: "I never believed I could reflect credit on [my father's] memory. But I feel now that I can. . . . Dad told me: 'The cemeteries are full of tenors who tried to sing Othello.' I want to sing that one best of all. . . . That would make Dad proud...
...Atlantic City, N. J., David Thomas lost control of his automobile, drove it through the window of a delicatessen shop. The crash unseated him, hurled him head foremost into a barrel of pickles, submerged to the hips. He was fined $370 for driving while intoxicated...
Sculptor Frederick William Mac-Monnies spread out his hands before an interviewer and cried : "Penguins! There's no help for it ! If you want the truth and dare to print it, that's the answer. . . . The barrel shape of the bird's body is reproduced exactly in the barrel shape of the woman of today who neither exercises physically nor exercises the least self-restraint upon her appetite. . . . Have you ever noticed the silly, self-satisfied expression of the penguin? It is almost a leer. That is the crowning point of resemblance. ... I have been speaking of . . . the woman over...
...Barrel-chested John James Fougere Audubon (1785-1851), for whom the National Audubon Societies were named, spent the prime of his life in difficult travel throughout the land shooting, skinning, studying, sketching, reporting North American birds. In 1827 he published his great ornithological work Birds of America containing 500 of his famed bird drawings...
...commodity has rallied from its low, last week the principal foodstuffs were still, in Manhattan at least, "dirt cheap." At last week's prices, corn, wheat and rye were respectively .018?, .016? and .01? a pound. In Manhattan good topsoil sells at $3 for a 200-lb. barrel...