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Forty-eight years ago, peddling books from door to door in Kansas, Bert and Elmer Underwood threw up their jobs. They had discovered that stereoscopic pictures sold much quicker than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine...
...received was a promise of friendship. Worst of all, Nanking officials learned last week that Smart Chang had actually appointed two Mukden representatives to the Peking government. Reproached for this, Chang replied that his representatives in Peking were there "for sentimental reasons only." After this announcement Chang threw a sop to the Nationalists by sending back to Nanking his official representative, General Wang Chia-cheng, whom he withdrew last year...
...artistic reputation. Clients would be led to believe, it was claimed, that first-class oils are obtainable at lower rates without the aid of an entrepreneur, by dealing directly with the artist. Last week New York Supreme Court Justice Schmuck ordered Defendant Christy to pay the $1,500 fee, threw out of court the damage charge as "founded on logic far too speculative for the court to follow...
Close contests in the Democratic lists threw final nominations over into the runoff. Thomas Pryor Gore, blind onetime (1907-21) Senator, sought his old seat "to see if a man can still be elected to the Senate on $1,000." Without money or managers but with a tongue slick with political sarcasm, he ran nip & tuck with Charles J. Wrightsman, wealthy Tulsa oilman, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, while three onetime Oklahoma Governors trailed in the ruck...
...Friedrich Nietzsche's words of long ago to Wagner: "We must 'Mediterraneanize' music." Tannhauser had not been given in Bayreuth in 25 years. It was an equally long time since Toscanini had conducted it. After each act (and at following performances) the great audience cheered tempestuously, threw hats, stamped, applauded, called for conductor and cast. But they called vainly. There are no curtain calls at Bayreuth. Oldtime Festivalgoers noted many a change that had come to the Festspielhaus and vicinity since the last festival (1928). Modernity has encroached on the Sacred Hill. A new office building...