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...this occasion the bull was in a bad temper before he was let into the arena. The moment he was released he became maddened and jumped into the enclosure where the amateur fighters were waiting. Quick as a flash they jumped into the grandstand. The crowd took fright and fled panic-stricken to the top tier of seats. The grandstand gave way. Four people were killed. Twenty-five were injured...
Young Mr. A. G. Havers who led Hagen, Smith, Kirkwood by the nose at Troon last June for the British open golf championship, has proved himself no flash in the pan. Shortly after, at Gleneagles, he led another brilliant field. Last week, at St. Albans, Verulam, Havers won the ?450 stake with 75-67-142. The previous course record, held by Braid...
Paris bristled with anger when the flash of the fight arrived. When details ticked in over the cables anger changed to pride. The press presented Eugene Criqui with three new titles to replace the one he lost: Criqui the Brave, True Frenchman, Cockerel Criqui...
...notable exception, aforementioned, was Mrs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Mrs. Joyce is not a vaudeville actress. Her stage is all the world. So many of her vagaries, nuptial and otherwise, have been chronicled in the daily bulletins that Mr. Carroll evinced an unerring flash of showmanship when he picked her for his orchid. He knew that she could neither sing nor dance. Yet the world derives a curious thrill from gazing at a woman of many marriages...
...intelligence and better artistic taste than in any previous one of the series. There are gorgeous spectacles-royal wedding in Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that can be done with costumes, lavish scenic effects and a well trained chorus is done, except the Last Judgment. Presumably that is reserved for the Passing Show...