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...could place Mlle. Roseray and the club in which she performed, more conspicuously before the public eye than either had ever been before. With elaborate cunning, he constructed his plan. Mlle. Roseray would go into Central Park and give an imitation of a woman trying, not very hard, to commit suicide; she would be rescued by sensation seekers who, with shouts and squealings, might decoy a few newshawks to the scene of action. Newshawks would then fly to the home of Mlle. Roseray; there they would find a note addressed to the proprietor of her night club, a suicide note...
There were two questions. This was the first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised...
...such as that perhaps Prexy knows more than we do about the business of being Prexy, that the reading period is just as well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit suicide (an exaggeration, note by reviewer) to evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please pardon four dots...
...children to the zoo will be unconscionably delinquent if they do not take them to Simba, Parents will themselves be surprised, delighted, often amazed.- Simba is the native term for lion. The native hunt for this king of beasts in which black men, defenseless save for shield and spear, commit a bloody regicide serves as a gruelling climax. The Drums of Love. Lovers long ago defeated in their love have brightened many a story with golden shadows of a picturesque despair. Now, under a title which is highly absurd and which has reference to nothing except the box-offices...
...Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence in white church cooperation...