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Lakme, Bell Song by Soprano Lily Pons (Victor, $1.50)-This will explain the revival of Manhattan's interest in coloratura opera, recently pronounced dead by Coloratura Amelita Galli-Curci...
...driver (TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.), told the Knife & Fork Club; "When public opinion is aroused, Al Capone will go back to Italy-but I can't talk about Italy. God help anyone who gets in the way of public opinion, for I know." He then proceeded to explain how "any police force can clean any city in 24 hours if the Mayor and City Government want it done." Two days, later Alphonse Capone issued on tinted stationery from his Miami fortress a lofty reply to General Butler. Wrote he: "The General is ill-informed. He should know...
...effort to explain the Menemen executions last week, Turkish officials an nounced that the Republic was "completely neutral" in the matter of religion, made no attempt to interfere with mosque services or missionary schools. It was, on the other hand, determined to suppress the dervishes because they were secret societies determined to bring Turkey back to the social forms of six or seven centuries...
...roused out by a fire alarm, rush off to the blaze clad in long red-flannel underclothing. Main plot: a group of firemen are enamored of the lady who lives next door, court her privily when her husband (a traveling salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches are twisted and two ancient steeds-Annie and Katie-gallop to a conflagration on a treadmill. The spectacle of funny, plump Victor Frederick Moore (Princess Charming, Hold Everything) in a fire...
Quite as arresting as such phenomena is phenomenal Charles Fort, who puts such questions with an accusing grin at Science. He is a world's champion professional anti-scientist. For 23 years he has grubbed in museums and libraries for records of occurrences which scientists can explain (thinks Fort) only by ridiculous hypotheses or denial that the occurrences occurred...