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...high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an oblong dwelling, severe and clean as a pursuit plane. Pullman Co. cooperated in the fabrication of its steel walls, Container Corp. in the development of its insulation. It is occupied by Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer-brother Arthur, conceived General Houses, Inc. After...
...with a bad cold in Washington; Pennsylvania's U. S. Senator James John Davis and President Edward Eugene Loomis of Lehigh Valley Railroad, of appendicitis in Pittsburgh and Sayre, Pa.; President Herbert Nathan Straus of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co. department store, of heart trouble in Manhattan: Dancer Jansci ("Jenny") Dolly, of three broken ribs, a pierced lung and lacerations (motor accident) in Bordeaux...
...Maria Olszewska joined the Metropolitan.† Together the oldtimers sat at a table in a night-club scene, watched Lucrezia Bori and Rosa Ponselle do lively impersonations of cigaret girls, after which tiny Lily Pons did an Apache dance with enormous Lauritz Melchior as her shrinking partner and Dancer Rosina Galli, Mr. Gatti's wife, conducted the orchestra...
...Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
Padlocked for violation of an ordinance prohibiting "lewdness, obscenity, indecency, immorality or impurity'' was Boston's Old Howard ("Always Something Doing''), famed oldtime burlesque house. At the hearing a Watch & Ward Society investigator described "vile body contortions" of a dancer. Said Mayor James Michael Curley, explaining that he had attended the show last October: "I never saw any muscle dancing there. The girls wore six-foot Turkish towels, much to the disappointment of the friends who accompanied...