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...Joseph Wellington ("Call Me Uncle") Byrns was widely regarded as a legislative weakling incapable of running the top-heavy House with discipline and dispatch. With a 3-to-1 advantage over the Republicans, he could not possibly lose a fight but he was not expected to win many with flash and finesse. Last week brought the first major test of his capabilities as a Speaker and he prepared to make it a great demonstration, to show doubters once & for all that the Democratic majority in the House could and would roll opposition flatter than a sheet of tissue paper. When...
Mascagni's one flash came when he was 26. A prize was offered for a one-act opera and the impoverished teacher, tired of a macaroni diet, worked at white heat for eight days and nights until he had completed Cavalleria Rusticana. On that lusty, full-blooded music he has lived ever since. He conducted it in the U. S. 32 years ago. The visit was notorious. Though his contract called for $4,000 per week, he had constant trouble with his creditors. He ranted at Manhattan's noise, Manhattan's food. He had his biggest tantrum...
...valve is a shutter which vibrates 2,400 times per second-faster than a humming bird's wings. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...
...people." Thereupon he went out to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances. As a professional photographer he is kind. In manner his pictures approach the clandestine snapshots of candid cameramen with their high speed lenses, but Jerome Zerbe uses only a standard news photographer's camera with synchronized flash bulb. None of the celebrities he has caught was photographed eating, yawning, scratching ears or picking noses. Some of them were drunk, but all knew their pictures were being taken and seemed pleased...
Jerome B. Zerbe Jr., 30, Yale '28. is a news photographer, too, with a rapidly mounting reputation in Manhattan advertising agencies and smartcharts, but he is very different from Izzy Kaplan. Always immaculately groomed, with an impressive acquaintance among New York's bright young people, he flash lights all the swankier bars, nightclubs, balls, routs & receptions. With determination and no little skill Photographer Zerbe has dedicated his life to recording the lives of the champagne set in its moments of abandon. A harvest of his finer fruits was assembled by Publisher David Kemp last week and issued...