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...peerless civil servants of the British Foreign Office took charge of all details. M. Barthou, who crossed the channel for a personal conference with Sir John, ostentatiously returned last week to Paris. British public opinion was prepared for what was coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds...
...head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane...
Nora Bayes (born Dora Goldberg), a peerless songster* had four other husbands besides Jack Norworth (No. 2): Otto Gressing (No. 1), Harry Clarke (No. 3), Arthur Gordoni (No. 4), Benjamin Lester Friedland (No. 5). She died insolvent in 1928. still lies unburied in a common receiving vault in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx...
...year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with a flashy little setter called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close to birds. He found and handled nine coveys perfectly in his three hours, to four coveys for his pointer bracemate, Shore's Carolina Jack. Another fine race was run by Jacob France...
...years ago Peerless was a good automobile. Last year Peerless became a shut-down automobile factory. Last June Peerless decided to become a beer. So Peerless Motor Car Corp. changed its name to Peerless Corp., gave its stockholders rights to purchase one new share of stock at $5 for each five shares they held, announced that Redmond & Co. of the New York Stock Exchange had agreed to underwrite the sale of all shares not subscribed by stockholders. Of the 92,348 shares offered, stockholders subscribed just 277. Last week Redmond & Co. refused to take the 92,071 Peerless shares remaining...