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...have signified their intention of returning for the 300th Celebration. Thus it seems safe to guess that over half of the student body will return for one of the greatest events in Harvard history. Of this number, over 200 have signed up for the gala Undergraduate dinner at the Harvard Club, the event which will be the finale of the program...
...couple who had been the original settlers the man had mysteriously died. Last week U. S. readers could peruse the tale (ghosted) of the woman survivor whose narrative did not pretend to tell the whole truth but did present a connected, first-hand account of these Gala-pagonistics...
Though there were extra performances to be given in Manhattan and out-of-town engagements still to be filled, the Bori gala farewell was the milestone that marked the end of Edward Johnson's first season as Metropolitan manager. Impressive had been the signs of new interest in opera. The audiences had been bigger, more enthusiastic. Financially the Company had done better than it had in four years. What deficit there was the directors kept to themselves. Manager Johnson announced in advance that he felt it necessary to play safe at first, depend on a proven repertory in which...
...impression on its visitors. Most significant squabble of the week was a minor argument in a hockey game in which a French player bit a Hungarian in the arm. More remarkable than the games themselves was the behavior of the guests, whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard...
...doyenne of U. S. expatriates in Paris; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo. With her husband, a well-known Beau Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...