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...Shaw comes from New Orleans where he was once a champion bicycle racer. Nearing 60, he has grey hair, a ruddy face, a diamond stickpin in his tie. He is the only bookmaker in the East, as Tom Kearney of St. Louis is the only one in the West, to make a winter book on the Kentucky Derby. He owns a stable of six or seven horses, races them in the name of his lawyer John J. Robinson. His headquarters on Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York...
...other city in the world so honors its eccentrics as does urbane San Francisco. In the 1860's, the city was the demented domain of a host of harmless witlings, dizzards, giddy-heads and zanies. In the daily 3 o'clock promenade on Montgomery and Kearney Streets, for which the whole city "habitually turned out, were to be seen such picturesque characters as "Topsy Turvy," a woman who had lost her money and her mind in the stockmarket, always wore her clothes inside out, her shoes on the wrong feet and was buried by sympathetic friends under...
Same day Dublin's Dail took pity upon Housepainter Peadar Cearnaigh (Peter Kearney). Inflamed by the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Peadar Cearnaigh sat down and wrote the words of "The Soldier's Song." As the national anthem of the Irish Free State it brings him great honor. Lately he has demanded royalties for public performances. Royalties he did not receive, but last week the Dail voted him a grant...
Most Free State theatres suddenly stopped playing "The Soldiers' Song" last week. Patriotic audiences, accustomed to stand and sing it as the Free State's national anthem, demanded explanations. They were told that one Peter Kearney, by profession a housepainter but acknowledged to have composed "The Soldiers' Song" in his spare time, has hired lawyers. The lawyers are demanding a royalty fee for every time the national anthem is played. Last week Dublin's larger theatres defied Housepainter Kearney, continued to play "The Soldiers' Song," dared his lawyers...
...Luisa Tetrazzini made her U. S. debut and San Francisco thrilled with the pride of discovering her. But mention Tetrazzini to San Franciscans today and they will talk mostly of Christmas Eve, 1910, when she sang for the poor at Lotta's-Fountain, the ugly traffic impediment at Kearney & Market Streets, given by the late Lotta Crabtree who did her first trouping in California. More than 100,000 people heard Tetrazzini do her trills and cadenzas that night, without benefit of modern amplifiers...