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AFTER Lorelei Lee has married Henry Spoffard and become a family woman in a small way, she settles down to give a waiting world the low down on Dorothy, the tart brunette who sang bass in the earlier story. She traces Dorothy's education from her childhood in a carnival company to New York and the Follies and eventually to the altar (twice...
...length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass had fought through some ten rounds of one of the most vicious...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
This situation the Chicago Tribune snatched at last week and brandished as a res horrenda, while it blared through the bass horn of its editorial columns: "It is a sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this...
...Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva and Vechslav Swoboda will head the new ballet. Giorgio Polacco is again musical director, Roberto Moranzoni, Henry G. Weber and Polacco the conductors, Herbert Johnson manager. Good news to President Samuel Insull and to the 2,400 citizens who guarantee $550,000 a year was the announcement that...