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Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
Deputies bustled into the Palais-Bour-bon last week for what was sure to be a wild scene, reception by the Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France...
National League. Experts who last year picked the Giants to finish near the bottom of the National League had by last week voiced insubstantial guesses for 1934. After a month of training at Miami's Flamingo Park Polo Field the New York Giants last week appeared fatigued as they started toward their own Polo Grounds-named for the team's first playing field near Central Park. A livelier ball should militate against their winning pennant & World Series again this year. Manager Bill Terry's only change in a team built around four pitchers (Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitzsimmons, Parmelee...
...stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief off the ground with a wing tip. Johnny Miller looped an autogiro...
Congorilla (Fox) is noteworthy as the first African jungle talking picture. Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson have recorded pygmy dialects and drums, the yapping of wild dogs, the yawning of hippopotamuses, lions' rare roars, the whooshing of thousands of flamingo wings, the slithering of crocodiles along wet rocks, the Martin Johnsons' phonograph playing jazz. There is little pretense of danger. Audiences still shift in their seats when two tons of horny rhinoceros rush at the camera, but the statistical safety of the man or woman with the gun makes the thrill meretricious. More valid is the leisurely charm...