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...Last year he used two steel cylinders, equipped with small platinum balls, pendent in a 35 foot pit. By measuring their mutual attraction and regarding the earth's pull as a constant, he could discover a unit in which to compute the earth's attraction. This time his steel cylinders are equipped with small glass balls...
Wheat jumped from 2¾ to 3⅛ a bushel in Chicago's Pit last week on rumor that Russia, wheat exporting land, had bought 8,000,000 bushels cash grain in a few days and was in the market for more. An international grain house of the first magnitude refused to be quoted by name in its comment...
...Stokes of the New York Evening World: "Her very comprehensible alarm had not been conquered when the moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...
...Monna Vanna, Sapho, Linda Di Chamounix, doubtful additions to the repertoire, had apparently displaced proved productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Pelleas. The new ballet had cavorted around in better style than the old one; but there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced by the new sunken pit. In the business offices, there was no waiting for esthetic failures. President Samuel Insull shook the box-office records together and discovered that the 107 performances on the home stage would cost the guarantors some $450,000. This would not deprive the Chicago Com-pany of its new twenty-million...
...Music Hall at 42d St. & Broadway; he who made varied and spectacular sorties beyond the beaten path of the new world's amusements. Last week son Arthur Hammerstein unveiled a vast memorial to him in the shape of an exceedingly Gothic theatre containing everything from an elevating orchestra pit to an organ, before a vast audience containing memorable citizens from James John Walker, Mayor, to Nazimova, actress...