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...sister Miss Kitty are looking forward to the summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation of Judith Crawford for Bill Woodruff (aged 46), upset the usual harmony. But there is a newcomer, Mrs. Fernanda Milbank, who leases "The Poplars" and arrives with her spoiled, affected, unhappy little daughter, Geraldine...
With the first frost, the Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small...
Early in Thanksgiving week the bright New Mexican sky suddenly darkened. The white men's thermometers fell far below Zero. Before nightfall snow had banked five ft. high across the down trails from Cerro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, where the nutters were camped. Within a few days the Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement...
Since the end of May, Cleveland had been canvassed for a native chorus and ballet. Rita De Leporte, the Metropolitan's première danseuse, whipped together an able troupe of 100. Giacomo Spadoni, assistant conductor and choral master of the Chicago Civic and Ravinia opera companies, selected 300 voices. For Aïda was provided a special Negro chorus led by a colored preacher. For Smetana's The Bartered Bride-"Czech national opera"-was provided the Cleveland United Czech Singing Society. A group of Welshmen were to sing specially in Die Meistersinger...
...Washington Mrs. Rita Nickel sued a department store for $50,000 because a male employe opened the door of a closet in which she was trying on a dress...