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Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, December 17, 1&Z2
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An Unusual Collection of Sunday Magazine Articles
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Grand Opera is Only
Wall Street's Hurdy Gurdy
In Wall Street, Otte H.
Kahn is the unques
tioned leader in music.
There is a wide gap
between acting as the
guardian angel for
ailing railroads and performing the same
role for ailing musical institutions, but Mr.
Kahn finds his diversion in bolstering up
such well-known opera companies as the
Metropolitan, the Chicago, the Bosten and
Century Companies.
He can frequently be found in the "family
circle" at the Metropolitan Opera Heuse,
giving attentive heed te the comments
being made .around him.
Jeseph Kaye has written an instructive as
well as highly interesting article about the
big business men of America who are pat
rons of music.
(Page Three)
Frem Circus Clown
te Nebel Prize Winner
.The romantic story of Jacinto Bena
vente, who has just stamped a New Person
ality in the world.
Sen of a celebrated doctor, Benavente
passed through a prosaic childhood, until,
while studying law at the age of nineteen,
he was thrown upon his own resources by
the failure of his father's fortune. He
earned his first bread and butter as a circus
clown.
At the age of forty-seven, he was classed
among the thirty-six Spanish "immortals."
This year, this celebrated dramatist is the
winner of the Nebel Prize for literature.
James Walter Smith writes of the in
spiring career of this remarkable man, illus
trating the success that comes as the result
of years of hard and unflagging work.
(Pa tre Twe)
Sir Geerge Younger, the Man Who Unhorsed Lloyd Geerge
Briefly described as the "Penrose of England," Sir Geerge stands out as one of the two Englishmen promi
nent in bringing about the resignation of David Lloyd Geerge. Here is an enlightening article by N. Baxter Kirk
man relative te this Englishman who is fighting for "normalcy." (pai?e six)
The Genesis and Revelation
of a Popular Here
By Jay E. Heuse
Being an intimate portrait, by a popular
humorist, of Senater Capper, of Kansas,
"the Other Bryan" Who and What He
Is and What He Will De.
"If Senater Capper sat for a portrait of William
Jennings Bryan, the public would recognize the like
ness and probably would congratulate Mr. Bryan upon
its faithfulness. Fer, like Bryan, Capper has no habits,
no vices. He does net chew, smoke or drink. He is
net addicted te profanity in any form. He lacks the
speculative sporting instinct which draws men
together around a card table and wherever odds are
posted. It is likely he hasn't been out till 4 o'clock in
the morning since he ceased te be a reporter en a
morning newspaper. Capper lacks Bryan's gift of song and his fanatical zeal. But
waiving purely external and physical phases, either could sit for the portrait of the
ether."
This is a character study that will interest while it amuses. Senater Capper was one
of these upon whom the November upset laid a heavy hand, but he is none the less
interesting because of his retirement from Washington political life. He is still the here
of the Capper Publications and the plain people. Read this article and knew Senater
Capper.
(Pa One Magazine Section)
Every Persen in the Country Is Out $150
The Real Pinch te
Every American I,
(Ac Fifteen Billiens
That Europe Owe,
Us New Are We
Going te Get It
Back!
With rumors coming
from across the sea that
England may cancel
France's war debt te the
island empire, and that
France may consent te a
reduction in reparations,
here is a clear, cogent dis
cussion of a timely topic,
one that affects every
American, whether it in
terests him or net.
Charles W. Duke brings
home te the reader that
here is a problem that can
net be indefinitely ignored some solution must be arrived at in
fact, the solutions narrow themselves te three in number. Read this
article and you can better appreciate the situation.
It is a problem that has a direct bearing en the income tax, the
tariff, the bonus, the ship subsidy and many another question of fit
ting national expense te national revenue.
(Page i:ight)
The Priest Who Fascinated
Protestant Londen
Have you heard or read of Father Bernard Vaughan?
Here is the story of a famous Jesuit priest, told by Chelsea
Reach, the tale of a Catholic missioner and preacher, whose
sermons created a furore in Londen, net merely among
these of his own faith, but in Protestant circles as well.
The author tells of an interesting attempt te obtain a Christma3
sermon from this remarkable man.
(I,tKe Klve)
The World's Winnings
Frem a Mexican Ball Game
Whence first came the term "Rubber Neck"? A story
of the enormous industry that has grown out of the wilds
of Mexico, where followers of Columbus found natives
playing a game with a ball of rubber. Between that day
and this stretches a wide expanse of time, during which
many uses have been found for the gum for which the
natives could find no use ether than that of idle amusement.
(Page Secn)
Making Our
Dear World of
Make-Believe
America's Christmas Tey
trade, as Yankee ingenuity
has snatched it from foreign
competition and given Santa
Claus American toys te dis
pense. A condition for which the
war was possibly primarily
responsible, but the fact new
remains that no longer can Europe claim credit for making American chil
dren happy at Christmastide.
Max Leuchter has been trailing Santa Claus for some months past,
noting down the various toy shops he has visited te place his orders, and
then has gene in and interviewed the proprietors concerning their claims
for Santa Claus' consideration.
(Pific Four)
Fictien:
Tex Damen and Cupid Pythias, by Harve Parsons
A tale of pals who stuck "closer than brothers."
(Tnge Nine)
Fifty-Fifty-Fifty, by Octavus Rey Cehen
A story of a "cullud" man's dilemma.
(I'uge 121een)
Humer:
town.
Follies of the Passing Shew Leuis Hanlen
"Bey, Page the Girls of Yesterday!"
Shall the Ladies Smoke?
Here is a problem that is distuiblns Hemer Balmy.
Het News Frem Oatman, Ariz.
Rebert S. Deman tells of Rudelph's adventures in that lively
(i'ai?e TwcUe)
The Wonder Page of Science
Rene Bache
The Art of Tricking the Ocean Inte Working for Man.
Breath Deflector. i Radie Control for Air Routes.
The Land of Perfume. I A Real Flying "Flivver."
Smelt in the Great Lakes. 1 Lessens from the Guinea Pig.
Seven Interesting Topics Read Them All.
(Page Ten)
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