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Some weeks ago Maria Jeritza filed suit for $25,000 against a pair of Cohen brothers, Bronx cigar manufacturers, for naming one of their cigars "La Jeritza...
Last week the officers and friends of the largest zoo in the world met for their annual garden party, in Bronx Zoological Park, New York City. There were tea for the grownups, amiable camels and ponies for the children to ride, and movies of the animals for everyone to see. But also there was sad news. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, for 30 years presiding genius and animal-man of the Bronx, announced his resignation as Director. He was 72 years old and wanted peace and quiet...
...earnings were estimated at approximately $120,000 -$60,000 for 16 weeks of opera at the Metropolitan, $40,000 for concerts, $20,000 from Victor record royalties and additional "items." She directed that any damages recovered from her $25,000 suit against the Cohen Brothers, cigar manufacturers of the Bronx, for using her name on a cigar band, be given to charity...
...University of London has its business offices in South Kensington, a college in Bloomsbury, two colleges on the Strand. It is as if the University of Chicago were strewn about from Ravenswood to White City and out to Oak Park, or as if Columbia University were dissociated into Bronx, Battery and Brooklyn units...
...accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo in particular. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are to be accompanied by Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum of Natural History, and Mrs. Murphy. They are to depart, by chartered schooner, in the summer...