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...taste not merely as "suitable" but with the more glowing adjectives "smart," "gay," "distinguished." ¶ President and Mrs. Coolidge, the latter in emerald green chiffon and a white satin wrap with white furry collar, helped make the opening of the new Fox Cinema Theatre, largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke...
...little town of Swinemunde, in northern Germany, dressed itself in gala attire: Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic, was due to arrive on his first visit since 1877. In due course the aged President appeared, received a hearty welcome. He had come, with Dr. Otto Gessler, Minister of Defense; Admiral Zenker; Rear Admiral Mommsen, to attend the annual maneuvers of the German Navy, held this year in the Bay of Swinemunde...
...Blue will mingle on the diamond for the second time this spring when the University nine steps out today onto the greensward of Franklin Field, Philadelphia, to cross bats with the University of Pennsylvania baseball team. The game will constitute one of the leading events of a gala weekend for the City of Brotherly Love, since today is Alumni Day at the Pennsylvania university, and a crowd numbering about 20,000 is expected to witness the clash of the rival nines...
Sergeant Michael Muldoon of the Brighton Police Force divulged to a CRIMSON reporter several suggestions, which, in his opinion would help to make the CRIMSON-Princetonian baseball game Saturday a gala affair. After three minutes of rumination, following the reporter's question he spoke...
Parades there will be, also, of course-a gala at the Opera, receptions by committees of French women for Legionnaires' wives, mothers; and for Legionnaires' children, guignol (Punch & Judy...