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...improving the breed of racehorses often seems only incidental to Saratoga's racing-season pastimes of dining & dancing at half a dozen night clubs, overdrinking in countless bars, recuperating with the dubious aid of mineral waters, betting on anything from the next race to three dice in a bird cage, horses are still the focus of the town's excitement. Last week, the feature race of the first day of the meet was the Flash, for two-year-olds...
...Navy, thus made his way to the Paris exposition of 1900. Pride of that exposition was the tallest thing in the world, M. Eiffel's tower. Jules Charbneau's taste ran in the opposite direction. He bought with his first savings a miniature medal, a jeweled bird and a very small meerschaum pipe, cornerstones of his present collection...
...appears on Metropolitan Opera programs. But she has sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain...
...Stadium. At a luncheon next noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck painted blue. Wryly observed the late Blue Eagle's onetime master: "This is exactly like the New Deal was in about June...
...Armstrong, W. P. Armstrong, F. J. T. Baker, E. L. Barnes, J. B. Bayley, C. C. Beamen, R. P. Bentley, G. W. Bergquist, R. L. Biggers, J. Bird, R. H. Bishop, R. S. Borden, R. S. Brainerd, S. Brayton, S. H. Brennan, W. B. Brewster, J. H. Brooks, L. H. Brown, W. H. Brown, G. Cummin, A. Damon, C. C. Daughaday, E. F. Davis, N. V. Davis, H. DeKruif, R. C. Diserens, J. E. Dodge, R. F. Duncan, M. Earle, C. R. Englund, L. W. Field, J. L. Foster, H. E. Gibby, T. J. Goodman, R. L. Gregg...