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...looked out of a window of the La Paz club I saw fleeing men and women picked off by rifle fire. ... A friend who had called on me ... tried to leave for his own hotel on Thursday, but every time his head appeared in the doorway police fired. . . . Victims were dragged back out of sight...
...agent he is once ordered by his temperamental employer, a woman, to give a tea for the press. With misgivings he obeys. After the tea is over, this is what he sees : ''A beautiful Chinese urn had been smashed. A chair had been hurled through a studio window. Someone had danced on the polished floor with hobnails. There were nine burns from abandoned cigarets in the expensive rug. A drink had been spilled in the grand piano. Someone had left a lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...
...unpleasant incident near the General Assembly's end was when Rev. Warren Elsing, 45, of Exeter, Calif., jumped out of a hotel window in a nervous paroxysm...
...touring the U. S. under the direction of impresario Morris Gest, sued his brother George, the play's Judas, for $100,000 for starting the Freiburg Passion Play in English. Recently in Denver "Christus" and his wife "Mary Magdalene" attacked "Judas," pushed his head through a box office window. All three were taken to jail...