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...sing but a certificate was necessary to convince the audience. The physician pronounced just a slight inflammation of the epiglottis and, angry, Madame Gerster sang. His bill of $60 she refused to pay and two years later when she returned to St. Louis the doctor brought suit. But Gerster refused to go to court, said she was too ill. Obligingly then the good-natured judge moved court to her hotel where she sang "The Last Rose of Summer" so charmingly that he dismissed the case...
...manufacturer of perfumes in the world. Pierre Wertheimer, within the last few years, has given more and more interest to breeding race horses at his 14th century barony in the Gironde district, to hunting at his lodge 100 miles from Paris. Cinema. With $1,600 saved from the cloak & suit business William Fox bought his first theatre in 1904. Last week he called himself the world's largest operator of cinema houses. He cited figures. He had just added a new group of 40 independent theatres in and near Manhattan, with annual profits of $5,000,000, seating capacity...
...reason can the McLaughlins get no money: When the $15,000 decision was rendered against the Clarke company, that firm's counsel appealed. The higher court (Appellate Division) reversed Justice Cropsey's decision, thereby throwing out the verdict in favor of the McLaughlins. The McLaughlins could not start another suit because Justice Cropsey in his decision had absolved the Greiner Contracting Co., Inc., of all blame. Since there were but two possible defendants to the suit?Greiner and Clarke?and both had been freed of blame, no other party could be sued. In its decision the Appellate Division flayed Justice...
...seventh day it rested. The Question Mark ended its airy sentence. After 150 hours. 40 minutes, 16 seconds aloft, the plane came to earth. Out of the fuselage stumbled the crew, shouting greetings. For Lieutenant Quesada, a dish of ice cream; for Sergeant Hooe, a dress suit; for Major Spatz, a shave ; for them all and for the Question Mark there was the acclaim which they had won by keeping a seven days' vigil, so they might snatch from the clouds all existing records...
Brisk and dapper in his striped suit, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes paused a moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...