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...Landing, a small colony tucked under the Hudson palisades some 20 mi. from Manhattan. In the course of a wedding celebrated there last year by her landlady's son. Miss Cornell and "Flush," the water spaniel who was in The Barretts, were pitched into the river when the dock collapsed. She has a grip of iron, plays a fair game of tennis, a much better game of golf. Ernest Jones, professional at the Women's National Golf Club, who trained Glenna Collett, worries about her because she will not give up the stage, says that in six months he could...
...scientist, he is an oldtime practical fishman. Twelve years ago he decided that if Seattle could not afford an aquarium for exhibiting live fishes, it should at least have a place to show frozen ones. There was space in the cold storage rooms of Seattle's Spokane Street Dock. The Port Commission did not object. George Yaeger now has 142 specimens in his collection. When he gets a new one he takes it to the cold storage room, freezes it in a block of ice. Then he hangs it on the wall or ceiling, classifies and labels it with...
Last week 15 paying members of a "dude" adventure cruise, scheduled to leave Long Beach, Calif, for the South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
...prosecution scene in the courtroom will be dramatized by the two leading men. J. R. Yungblut '34, as Metcalf, the prisoner in the dock, who has been accused of the murder of his wife, is questioned by Robert Breckinridge '34, who plays the part of the attorney, Frank Dearden. The play itself will open tomorrow at the Pi Eta Theatre, and run for the remainder of the week...
...carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods. As Governor, Senator Long doubled the capacity of the State cotton warehouse at New Orleans, effected a cut from $1.60 to 26¢ in the insurance rate on public dock property...