Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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champion was otlered contracts to appear in a vaudeville act. Miss Hutchinson, although training intensively, has no set training schedule. Whenever Miss Hutchinson happens to see a speeding train, or a trucI4 going at a last enough clip, she races along beside it lor a couple ol miles. Like Cunningham, the champion had a handicap to overcome belore embarking on her lamous career. Hers was a natural distaste lor violent exercise. Miss Hutchinson is the most promising U. S. athlete lor the coming Qlympic games, and if sent, will probably be accompanied by a special delegation ol the Hutchinson- Ior-Miler Club. SISTER SIDNEY MEEKER STAGES GIGANTIC REVIVAL MEETING To-day Sister Sidney Meelcer, protegee of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, opens, at the Stadium, her weelc-long revival meeting, in which she hopes to gain two thousand converts. A million people are expected to attend, mostly out ol curiosity to see the famed woman preacher, who has brought religion up to date. Dressed in a Fi ure-revealing silver gown and with white doves circling round her head, Sister Rfleelcer will give a two-hour lecture on Your God, My God, and What's He to Us, Anywayfpu. At frequent intervals Sister Meelter will brealc ol'l her lecture and play on the organ swing versions ol Nearer My God to Theen and other hymns, which she has had thousands ol requests lor. Sister Meelcer estimates two thousand converts in this one weel4, claiming that she will get that many on her personality alone. So that there will be no error about the number ol converts, an automatic counter has been installed in the Stadium, which challcs up a point lor Sister Meeker every time one ol her hearers Hgets rei ion . ?n private Iile Sister Meelter is a devoted mother ol her live children, and spends several minutes ol each day playing with them. As she is a renowned Bible student, the children love to piclc out any line from the Bible, and have their mother tell them the exact verse, chapter and bool4 it is in. Recently at a nation-wide convention ol the clergy Sister Meeher was voted Mpersonality Girl ol Religion . SENORA AAGAARD VALOR KNOCKS OUT LION Last night thousands ol people were thrown into a panic when Maneater, savage lion and I4ilIer ol three tamers, brolce out ol his cage during a perlormance, and leaped into the audience. Qnly the daring intervention ol his tamer, Senora Aagaard Valor, prevented a massacre. The Following is an eyewitness' account: There was death in the air last night. The spotlight was turned on, and drums rolled. Maneater was driven, roaring and looming, into his cage. Then, poised on an elephants ear, came the Senora, dressed in a snappy white uniform with a Flowing scarlet cloalc, bowing and blowing lqisses to the wildly-cheering and peanut-throwing audience. Armed only with a lilty pound wand and an automatic, the slender, masterlul Figure stepped into the cage. Slowly she began to circle Maneater to bring him to the linal submission ol saying his prayers at her booted leet. But Maneater was restless-held already bent the bars on his side ol the cage and made a rush For the Senora. With her well ltnown agility the Senora auiclcly dodged, and Maneater plunged through the bars. Hall- crazed from the impact and his lreedom, Maneater sprang into a box lull ol children. The Senora, realizing the danger, lollowed. just as Maneater was crouching to spring at the neclc ol a child, the Senora came up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. Maneater loolted around, and the Senora let go with a terrific haymalcer that lcnocI4ed Maneater colder than a dead herring. Then with complete sell- possession Senora Aagaard Valor slung the prostrate lion over her shoulders, and went out to talce a bow. 62

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WESCOTTS POWERFUL DEFENSE SAVES KILLER An all-woman jury early this afternoon sent in a verdict of Hnot guiltyf' to free ,lose Verdozzi, indicted for killing his elderly wealthy wife. Again the lucid elo- quence of the greatest living criminal lawyer, Miss Jean Wescott, has saved a killer from the chair. This morning the court met to hear Miss Wescott's stirring plea to the jury. Pre- VIOUSIY Miss Wescott, after insisting on an all-woman jury had gotten some sympathy for her client, who was becomingly dressed in a black pin-striped suit, by asking him, Why Clicl you marry your wife? QVerdozzi's wife was notably ugly, twenty years Older fl'1C1n he, but possessed of a large fortuney With touching sincerity, he replied, Simply, ult was love at first sightln l-lowever, the State had a strong case against Verdozzi, possessor of a long police record, in that they had twenty eye witnesses to the murder, Miss Wescott, nattily attired in a well-tailored suit, and exuding self-confidence, summed up in a ringing voice her case as follows: UThese are the reasons you should acquit the defendantl First, l, personally don't think he's guilty. Second, do you think anybody with such beautiful brown eyes could commit such an atrocity? And third, you wouldnft want to have on your conscience that you'd sent a man to his death, would you?H Two minutes later the jury filed back and returned a unanimous verdict of Unot guiltyn. Immediately afterward, Miss Wescott hurried off to work on her defense for Baby-face Killer. STATE MILITIA MAY BE CALLED OUT AGAINST COMMUNIST COOLIDGE Last night the governor was in conference, considering the advisability of calling out the state militia to make Communist Lucile Coolidge, Earl Broderfs successor as leader ofthe Red Party in the Ll. S., stand up. Communist Coolidge is on a sit-down strike in the middle of State Street. Motorists do not object to Comrade Coolidge's simply sitting in the street, as they can drive around her, but when she makes the March of Time newsreel, writes magazine testimonials, and poses for Life Magazine, they say there is too much congestion. Communist Coolidge, the author of several significant speeches delivered in Bug l'louse Square, went on her sit-down strike because the city of Chicago refused to provide umbrellas for the communists when they marched in the rain on last May first. She hopes that her protest will not only provide comfortable marching next May day, but also further her advocating that Chicago build the lecturers of Bug l'louse Square a stadium. With her leather boots and her hair shaved off, Communist Coolidge is a striking figure as she sits in the middle ofState Street, sending telegraph messages to Moscow. Special Dispatch from Springfield:Thegovernor,with a master stroke of diplomacy, has prevented an uprising and peaceably persuaded Communist Coolidge to stand up by sending her a gold soap box on which hereafter to speakl I-IUTCI-IINSON SMASI-IES MILE RECORD Last night a packed Stadium saw Becky-,loe Cfleet-footl I-lutchinson race to victory in the National Mile Run. Miss I-lutchinson edged out Glen Cunningham, former holder of the title, by half a second when she put forth a last minute burst of energy. This morning at the Masonic l'Iospital the champion was reported recovering satisfactorily from a nasty ankle injury received when one of the other female con- testants deliberately kicked her. Although slowed noticeably, Miss l-Iutchinson had continued with her usual fine sportsmanship. Red-headed Miss I-lutchinson is well-known in the world of sports. A graduate of the University of I-lawaii, Miss l-lutchinson first became interested in running when, cs a student in the Islands, she, attired in a sarong, would race the native runners. As her fame spread, she became one of the greatest attractions to the tourists, the 61

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PI-IOTOGRAPI-IER GETS FIRST PICTURE OF MISS NANCY DAVIS IN TWENTY YEARS To ,lohn jones, staff photographer, goes the distinction, and a fat bonus, for having snapped the first picture in twenty years of that famed recluse of science, Miss Nancy Davis. This is Mr. jones' personal story. 'KWell, I had an inside tip-I go steady with Miss Davis, coolcfs grand-daughter -that Miss Davis was all set to malce one of her rare trips down town this morning. She wanted to see Tyrone I3ower's son, who is appearing at the Chicago. So I I went down to cover the Loop . . . Sure, it was a cinch to spot her. She came wallcing down State Street, jabbing with her umbrella everybody that got in her wayi She certainly stood out from the crowd in that old-fashioned grey suit she always wears. You could tell right away she wasn't the feminine type of woman and that clothes meant nothing to her. UAnyways, I tooI4 one gander at her, and said, KThere's my manl' I pulled out my shutter and got a beauty ofa picture just as she Iool4ed up and saw me. Boy, the expression she hadlu From a special dispatch it has just been learned that Miss Davis was considering leaving the United States and going to England Hwhere she would not be subjected to such outragesf' I-Iowever, the faculty and students of Chicago University have signed a petition, trying to persuade her against such a mistake. They are eager that she should first announce to the world her manufacturing of the ninety-fourth atom. Miss Davis, although she made it ten years ago, has refused to tell the public for fear she would be given the Nobel Prize and have to submit to being photograph- ed in her laboratory. Miss Davis has never married. When Albert Einstein's son proposed to her by a series of ingenious formulas, commonly used only in the application of higher mathematics, she promptly sent him an autographed copy of her bool4, The Atom Has no Love Life. MAROUISE D'ARCY GUEST OF HONOR AT ROUND OF RIVIERA PARTIES Marquise d'Arcy, the former Catherine f'landley of Chicago, has been dazzling international society on the French Riviera during the last few weelqs. In Paris, the French government dedicated a monument to the Marquis for services rendered to his country. Marquis d,Arcy, you may recall, died two years ago at Nice under mysterious circumstances which have never been satisfactorily explained. The Marquise, a well-lcnown figure in Continental Society, has since been rumored engaged to Count Carlo, the armaments Czar, and also to the Earl of Winchester, but she has appeared at each of the various parties given here in her honor with a different escort. Teasing the gossips, eh, Marquise? At the Deauville Casino last night, she was hostess to a large party including several old American friends. l'ler entrance was sensational, for she wore the magnificent collection of rubies given to her by the Rajah of Nahdah, which everyone has been hoping to see. When the season here is over, Marquise d'Arcy is planning a London holiday- just in time for the brilliant court affairs scheduled. Afterwards, she will come to the United States, she says, and may even visit Chicago for a few days and see old friends. 63