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...cannot agree with the Cardinal's position," said Minister of Instruction Marcelino Domingo, and forthwith signed a decree abolishing compulsory religious instruction in the schools...
...Hauck Radio Co. about a receiving set (similar to his Bangkok receiver) capable of picking up Siam from New York. He was told only one man, radio enthusiastic Roy C. Cool of Morristown, N. J. had invested in such a set and had it in working order. The company forthwith negotiated; Mr. Cool gladly loaned. After much painstaking dial twiddling by a Norden Hauck expert, a Bangkok orchestra blared forth...
...Ralph H. Thurber was a liar, an unskillful liar. He said his mother lived in Philadelphia. Cleveland authorities tried to locate his mother in Philadelphia. Actually they found her at Lockport, N. Y. Forthwith they took Thurber's fingerprints. The prints indicated a Bertillon record which showed that the man had been in California, Ohio and New York prisons for forgeries most of the time he claimed he was in the Far East. As a forger he was inept. As a missionary he was fluky. But where did he get his worms? That remained Cleveland's puzzle...
...played three concertos (one of them by Conductor Stock), young Rosenstein, short, sallow son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor, was unanimously judged most worthy of a solo engagement with the Chicago orchestra. Newshawks went after his "story," found that he had been running errands for the Chicago Daily News, forthwith played him up as a messenger boy. That troubled Joseph Rosenstein, because he felt it made him look like a sudden-wonder prodigy whereas he has studied music for years, been generally well educated. He did not rent a dress suit for his Chicago Symphony concert. He bought one, only...
...President Samuel Insull, said that Mary Garden was severing her 20 years' connection with the Chicago Opera by mutual agreement. Chicagoans had guessed that she was through a fortnight ago when no photograph of her appeared with the other pictures advertising next year's performances. Gossip forthwith spread to the effect that she had been ousted because Mrs. Insull does not like her, has long urged President Insull to end her contract. A year ago, the report went out, Mary Garden said she would not renew her contract and President Insull was glad to take...