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...while the committee was holding an executive session in another room, a female midget, Lya Graf of Ringling Bros. Circus, wriggled through the waiting crowd and headed straight for Banker Morgan. Leading the 21-in., 22-lb. creature in her gaudy blue satin dress was Charles Leef, assistant to famed Press-agent Dexter Fellows. "Gangway!" Leef cried. "The smallest lady in the world wants to meet the richest man in the world." Before Banker Morgan knew it, Leef had plunked Lya Graf down on his lap. Newscameras went into frantic action. The spectators roared with amazed amusement. Banker Morgan grinned...
...painting, each example a world-famed masterpiece. And Director Harshe headlined the show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez' Isabella, First Queen of Philip...
...just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries. Out from the little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish to reveal gorgeous white silk tights, glittering with spangles. He was Louis ("King Louie") Bonette, junior member of Bonette Bros., daredevil aerialists. Daredevil Bonette perched himself on the trapeze, looked to his parachute, waved a nonchalant signal, and sailed off skyward in the hot air balloon with the camera clicking down...
Daniel Gimbel, vice president of Gimbel Bros., was discovered to have been elected chairman of the board several months ago, succeeding his brother Charles who died last September (TIME, Sept...
With reference to the most interesting article "Flight by Steam," p. 34 of your issue of April 24, I should like to get the address of the Besler Bros, in order to get some information on the steam-powered airplane they were able to take into...