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Phonograph antiquarians, who hunt for sacred if scratchy records out of the dear dead past, had a wonderful prize offered them last week. It was a 1912 disc of the late great Lillian Russell, singing the hit of her career, Come Down, My Evenin' Star. Copies were issued by Manhattan's Collectors Record Shop. The recording showed its age. The sound of the little string orchestra that accompanied Lillian had the antique flavor of the wormholes in a Gutenberg Bible or the patina on a Hellenistic bronze...
...gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel's beautician. She runs around tripping over chairs, showing her well-turned calves. One line brought down the house. Says Queenie sidling up to Brutus: "Hello, honey." Sniffs Brutus: "Honey? Why, that's evenin' talk...
...last week was spent in explaining that he did not mean what he had said. He had to tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with a White House invitation to little businessmen. But his most vigorous backtracking was on the subject of holding companies...
...Pierian Sodality announced last evenin the election of the following men to membership...
...There are two sides to the question: we cowpunchers envy college men sometimes, and I 'spect they often wish they could ride like we do. Probably some of our boys would look right awkward in evenin' clothes, but if you want to see a real pretty sight you ought to watch a few of these college bred fellahs tryin' to set a cowpony. Back where we come from, the boys don't git much chance for an edication, although some of the fellahs ridin' tonight have graduated from big colleges. You eastern boys don't get the same chance...