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Healthy was the complete calm amid which the French Chamber opened, last week, for its last sessions prior to the general elections in April. The Government of Premier Poincaré won easily a vote of confidence of 310 to 227 on an issue of party politics which had been deemed dynamite-laden, and serene progress loomed in the Chamber while frenzied electioneering began outside...
...mountain, feeling its mightiness, has refused to move. But in England, amid furious controversy, Mohamat is preparing to go to the mountain along the road to Rome. Last week the presumably infallible encyclical of the Pope declared that if there is to be a unified Christian church, it will be the unchangeable Catholic Church, with the sinners gathered back into the fold. The Church seeks temporal power in Italy; it deplores Mexico! it disapproves of Prohibition in the United States. All these things bring it to the attention of American Protestants. But the open letters and Theological explanations intended...
Meanwhile the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress sojourned amid huge drifts of country snow, at Sandringham. George V was known to have telegraphed his Keeper of the Swans certain instructions as to their wintry care...
Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
Night Life. Even amid the beer gardens of Austria, the love of a good woman will make a conjuring pickpocket go straight. With Johnny Harron in the leading role, this famed fatuity is illustrated as clumsily as ever before...