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After deliberating 65 hours, a jury in Los Angeles acquitted Alexander Pantages, 59, theatre operator, in his second trial on the charge of criminally assaulting Eunice Pringle, 19, dancer. Courtroom spectators cheered loudly, leaped atop their chairs, milled about the rich showman and his wife. On his first trial, two years ago, Mr. Pantages was convicted, sentenced to prison for 1-to-50 years. Promptly Miss Pringle began suit for $1,000,000 damages. The convicted man was freed on $100,000 bail while he appealed for—and won—a new trial because the court had forbidden testimony relating to Miss Pringle's character. The defense charged a conspiracy by Miss Pringle and her partner, one Nicholas Dunaev, to blacken Pantages' reputation after he had rejected their stage act. Following his acquittal the showman announced he would open a new circuit of 30 theatres.
To Bishop William Thomas Manning's rich Cathedral of St. John the Divine, long abuilding in Manhattan, Banker William Woodward, whose racehorses (Gallant Fox [retired], Sir Ashley, Sir Andrew, et al.) have won $89.543 in purses this year, gave $80,000 for a rose window 40 ft.in diameter, in memory of his parents and his uncle James T. Woodward (from whom he inherited his estate at Bel Air, Md., his large holdings in Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.).
Mrs, De Forest A. Spencer, wife of the assistant commercial attache of the U. S. Legation in Vienna, searched the pawnshops for a 1764 Cremona violin which had been stolen from her automobile, found it had been pawned for $4.28.
Mrs. Edith Kane Baker, wife of Manhattan Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. (First National Bank), was asked for $500,000 damages by her cousin Mrs. Mary Emma Calhoun, Manhattan real estate broker. Mrs. Baker was accused of describing her cousin to others as "a narcotic addict" who "bribed doctors and nurses to give her narcotics, and was a liar and not to be trusted."