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...freshmen left their saber squad at home because Andover had trained no men in that department. VARSITY RESULTS: Foll-Arp 1-1, Raney 1-2, Vera 2-1, Frankman 1-0. Epoe-Yates 3-0, Heger 2-1, Constable 2-1, Westhrin 1-0, Gay 2-1, Masterson 2-1, Carter...
...Paul, Robert Heger invited friends to a performance of the Hindu rope trick, most baffling of magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...
Delighted at his success, Magician Heger proposed to go to England, collect the $25,000 prize offered by the Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Catherine Walsh, having to work for her living, boarded her ten-year-old son out with a Mrs. Frank Heger. When Mrs. Walsh ran short of funds and could not pay $81 due her son's board, Mrs. Heger held the child as collateral. A court ruled children might not be used that...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone...