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...days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent my program to New York. Suddenly I got a cablegram asking...
...newspaper interview the lovely Miss Wilson reported that she never wanted to see Tinney again, that she was through with Broadway, that she had accepted a motion picture contract out West "where men are men, and not black-face comedians...
...resident of Baltimore, Simon, who is 58 years old, has long been prominent in the development of undersea navigation. In the early 90's he competed for the contract to build the first Government submarine. A rival won the award, but in 1897 Mr. Lake launched the Argonaut, first submersible to operate successfully in the open sea. Speaking on the development of the submarine, he once said : "My first trip was in the Argonaut down Chesapeake Bay. Night was coming on and we de cided to come to the surface...
...Teapot Dome" explosion has changed all this, and now nobody wishes to claim connection with Mr. Doheny. The master of Pan-American Petroleum, however, has gone ahead with his naval reserve contract and built the oil storage tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, despite the fact that the contract is now under attack and in fact in litigation. The tanks are ready, but just who will fill them has not been decided. Under the contract, Pan-American was to furnish 2,500,000 barrels of oil for this purpose. But because of court procedure, Pan-American need not go ahead with...
...fault, and she loves him anyway. The upshot of it is that she vows she will marry him, come to live in the cage with him. But the authorities, it appears, have already decided that in the contingency of his marrying, he will automatically be freed from his contract. So the doors of his cage are unlocked and the lovers walk out together. It is to be assumed that Keeper Collins gets his Gibbon back safely and that peace reigns once more over the Ape-House...