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...picture of his three children taken when they were little and a visiting card on which Composer Giueseppe Verdi sent him New Year's greetings shortly before he died. Caruso used to have every costume made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle never sings without the little silver cross she wore when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass...
...Bovril). Competing beef extracts-like Oxo, which comes in cubes, Lemco, in crocks, or Beefex-have never endangered Bovril's prestige. Hitherto, Bovril sales in the U. S. and Canada have been handled by Harold F. Ritchie, "world's greatest salesman," who owns Eno's Fruit Salt (morning-after tonic), Pompeian Cream (face restorer) and who recently purchased for several million dollars Scott's Emulsion (delicious white cod-liver oil). William S. Scull Co., the newly appointed sales agents for the U. S., recently celebrated their 100th Anniversary in the wholesale coffee and tea business...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
...almost over before you remember to take your coat off. When you leave the theatre, you realize that you have been fooled, which is the purpose of such entertainments. Good shot: Fairbanks and his hobo companion (Guy Kibbee) walking along the track on which Joan Blondell's train for Salt Lake City is quickly disappearing...
With a theatre at its disposal the Dramatic Club should play an important part in extra-curricular activities at Harvard. If it can prove that it is worth its salt it is quite possible that the Club might be endowed with a theatre. The Cambridge School failed for many reasons, among which was the fact that it was started full-grown. The Dramatic Club is an old organization and with it as a nucleus a group might be developed which would succeed where the School of the Drama failed...