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...based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there. And in many a mountain glen the clans gathered, the pibrochs skirled...
...intelligent publicist, he had arranged for a radio broadcast of his descent. A telephone line ran between the bathysphere and the tug Freedom. So the world heard a description which, while less Shelleyesque than Professor Piccard's stratospheric exuberances (TIME, Aug. 29), ran in the same strain of ecstasy...
...voice tense with suppressed fury, Chancellor Franz von Papen broadcast over the government radio last week a declaration that his dictatorial and aristocratic Cabinet "corresponds to the will of the people," despite the Reichstag's vote of nonconfidence in the Cabinet 513 to 32* (TIME, Sept...
Warming to his broadcast, the Chancellor cried: "When you gentlemen of the Nazis [Hitler Party] begin your class warfare against the fine people, against the Barons, and when you think success at the elections will follow such tactics, I am afraid you are in for a bitter disappointment...
...radio's biggest, most persistent boosters has been Soprano Frances Alda. Three winters ago when most important singers were half-apologetic about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly singing in a series of Puccini operas aired by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. (TIME, Nov. 18. 1929). Last week Soprano Alda announced another enviable radio contract. With Meyer Davis' orchestra she will broadcast every Tuesday night this winter for the Waldorf-Astoria. And next week at a studio in the Waldorf-Astoria she will start taking pupils for opera, concert and for radio...