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Amid cries of "à bas Américains" from the audience, Mlle. Parisys burst into a song in untranslatable* argot, in which she voiced her determination to sell whatever she pleased without paying a sales...
...great yellow curtain dropped on the first act of La Boheme at a special matinee given last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. A very special audience there for a special occasion burst into applause, prolonged it until the only performer left bowing on the stage was pretty, charming Mary Lewis, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl, appearing for the first time at the Metropolitan as Mimi. Members of the special audience clapped their hands red. Many of them, stationed conveniently in the front of the orchestra in seats warmed these many years by long-nosed subscribers, reached underneath, pulled forth...
...Throngs of children and massed delegations representing Belgian societies filled the square, from the old Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel de Ville on the other. Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination of his recent tour of Africa...
...problems of the modern university, to be sure, but a great many of them, would be solved if only the magic formula for producing great teachers could be discovered. Comment of this sort, at all times prolific, has recently taken a more than usually practical turn in a burst of critical examination of the University's graduate school from which come many of the country's and not a few of Harvard's own prominent educators...
Great Excitement and little damage was caused in the square last evening at 6.32 o'clock when flames burst from under the eaves of Notman's studio, and headed for the roof. Six fire engines were immediately summoned to the scene, and ladders leaned against the building from the Massachusetts Avenue side...