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One April day in 1917, war-conscious Manhattanites at Broadway & 42nd Street gawked at a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed damsel clad in an American flag, nonchalantly riding a steel girder to the top of a 20-story building under construction. Flinging a bundle of recruiting circulars to the spectators, the...
There has probably never been a literary reincarnation like this. To U.S. men of draft age, Frank Merriwell is a vague synonym for a ninth-inning home run or a last-minute touchdown. But to an older generation, he was as vividly real a person as Superman or Tarzan is...
Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a "non-Aryan." But most of the other men who wrote Vienna's waltzes...
Son Francis Hyde Bang's biography is a rather docile portrait of a personable, energetic, businessman-of-letters making good through capitalizing a bottomless facility for thin wit. It also evokes a rather sterile era in U.S. cultural history. The merry dinners of Bangs and his circle still echo...
Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was...