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While neighbors in Richmond, England, shook their heads, lonely little old Ada Littlejohn packed her small trunk last August and sailed for Manhattan. Her husband had died. So had her terrier Jumbo and her canary Nanki-Poo. For Mrs. Ada Littlejohn it seemed at first like just one more tragedy in her life when the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company announced it would give Gilbert & Sullivan in the U.S. this season (TIME, Sept. 17). But then she reckoned her slender income and decided to go along...
...years Mrs. Ada Littlejohn has been a Gilbert & Sullivan addict. She has heard nearly every London performance, thought little of traveling to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow to hear others. This week the D'Oyly Carte players gave their 100th Manhattan performance. For Mrs. Littlejohn, who goes five times a week, it was the 62nd. Singers in the company have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying...
...field of modern Italian literature the exhibit contains some of the poems of Adolfo Bosis, the young Italian flier who lost his life when flying over Rome in order to drop anti-Fascisti pamphlets on the city. There is also a collection of the poems of Ada Negri, Nobel Prize winner, one of the poets to gain praise from Mussolini...
This year's Freshman class has 189 members, while the Upperclasses have a combined total of 627. The formal opening ceremonies for the scholastic year were held yesterday morning in the First Church (Congregational). The speakers were Ada M. Comstock, president; Frances R. Jordan, Dean of the College; Bernice B. Cronkite, Dean of the Graduate School; and Mary S. Douglass of Brandon, Vermont, president of the Student Government Association...
...uncaged this week at Loew's Orpheum when Cab and the boys set their audiences rocking to the tortured strains of Minnie the Moacher and Zazz Zoo Zazz. Any ardent devotee will be completely satisfied by the Calloway contortions and incoherent mouthings, while favorable attention will be directed toward Ada Ward and her condition of Without That Certain Thing...