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...Emperor" Batista, who had gotten much personal credit for his soldiers' anti-Red foray, was again man of the hour. Correspondents reported strong talk of an Army coup against President Grau. While visiting the wounded next day in his automobile the President was shot at by snipers whose bullets struck his convoy...
...manager in New York to give her a break, you're washed up he says simply. Why don't you try working in a theatrical office, you know plenty of the crowd... Kitty remembers her daughter in Boston; she is ambitious again. That she shouldn't have gotten to the top is no reason that Shirley shouldn't. Dancing lessons, a try-out, success, the Palace, and then a rehearsal in Boston for a musical comedy. While mother is having an appendectomy, Shirley romps through the woods with Warren Foster, a young artist, who is living in her grandmother...
...Providence or some such place, and then their allotted days would begin all over again. But this year the law has been amended to read that no car can remain in the state more than '30 days in a year." At the end of that time permits must be gotten at the Registry of Motor Vehicles. So now we have a means of getting at out-of-state cars by checking...
...notable side attraction at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was the Parliament of Religions, gotten up by the Rev. John Henry Barrows of Chicago. Opened with a prayer by the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the Parliament brought to the U. S. for the first time such exotic foreign religionists as the Swami Vivekananda. To the U. S. popular mind it gave the first smatterings of an esoteric subject, Comparative Religions, and the first inklings that Oriental faiths, after all, had their points...
They go through a revolution looking for Snarge in Paranagua, a Latin-American State. Finally they arrive at the Greek island. Travers cannot persuade the engineers to give up their project, elects to have himself blown up with the temple. Meantime, Mrs. Travers and Mantell have gotten tired looking for Travers, have decided to concentrate their attention on each other. Bert the seaman, it turns out. was the only one who had an inkling of what his dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just...