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Because Cristobal Colon (sometimes known as Christoforo Colombo, or Christopher Columbus), son of Domenico Colombo, a wool comber of Genoa, planted his Green Cross and the royal banner of Spain on San Salvador, one twelfth of October, 431 years ago, there will be celebrations throughout this hemisphere next Friday. On that day the Pan-American International Women's Committee will hold conferences in the capitals of practically every Republic of both the Americas...
Wallace Irwin's sense of humor was constantly with him in those days. He wrote light verse and lighter prose. He was a burlesque writer for the Republic Theatre in San Francisco. Before John V. A. Weaver was out of short pants, he had written The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum and other poems "in American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot...
Francis White, vaudeville veteran: " A San Francisco reporter termed me ' an animated exclamation point.' In our interview, said I to him: 'I found a shop where I could get shoes, which is quite wonderful-for I wear a very small size...
...Adolph Bernard Spreckels, wife of one of the sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly...
Consuelo Escobar, who (with the San Carlo Company) has demonstrated a small, but pretty and very flexible soprano voice, is a native of Mexico, where she has sung with success. This success, she says, is the more praiseworthy because the Mexicans are biased against Mexican artists. Like natives of the U. S., they will patronize a foreign troupe enthusiastically, while a local company gain small patronage and less applause...