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...long ago settled his in come tax troubles with Washington, a U. S. Commissioner set Torrio's bail at a prohibitive $100,000. In the police lineup Torrio was asked where the 1925 fusillade of bullets had hit him. He pointed proudly to his chest and chin. "It's too bad that last shot wasn't higher - right through the middle of your head," dryly observed a police captain...
...Once Mamma and I, Patience, went on the little schooner over the channel to Le Havre. All the French were very seasick, but there was one man who was English and he sat himself down and put a robe over him, placed a vomiting pan under his chin and then began to read his paper. He wasn't a bit excited, but the French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead...
...prim and rather housewifely woman," observed the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, "a dead-white woman inclining to stoutness, a school-teacher type with a double chin...
Died. John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, 64, author, producer, leading man of the historic musicomedy Chu Chin Chow; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England. Chu Chin Chow opened in London in 1916, ran straight through the War, did not close until 1921. Three million people saw the show, including thousands of Allied soldiers who made it a martial institution. For a consecutive run, its record of 2,238 performances is surpassed only by the Manhattan engagement of Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Two months ago Producer Asche, who made $1,000,000 from Chu Chin Chow...
...tall, spindling girl with bare legs and a Buster Brown haircut bowed her way on to Manhattan's Town Hall stage one night last week, tucked a violin under her chin and with rare self-possession proceeded to establish herself as one of the promising prodigies of the 1935-36 season. She was Marjorie Edwards, 13, of San Jose, Calif., who traveled East for the first time last summer to play at the Berkshire Festival. This time she was back to face the test of a more formal...