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...gala performance of Barrie's one-act plays, staged by a society of amateurs, was crowded with brilliantly uniformed foreign officers and brilliantly gowned women. The street lights reflect a miniature Paris, but in some respects more beautiful because the harbor, with its many foreign warships, illuminates this extraordinary Yangtze metropolis...
...sign set up in the middle of the busiest street in Nelson, New Zealand, last week, while Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York, was sick abed in her hotel recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Meanwhile a pageant of 50,000 loyal New Zealanders passed in gala review before the Duke of York, second son of the King-Emperor, now en route to Australia (TIME...
...city last week with Princess Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...
King Christian X made President Relander welcome, ordered a gala night in his honor at the Royal Opera. As the audience assembled Dr. Relander was to be seen in the royal box, between His Majesty and Queen Alexandrine...
Commencement Day is still a gala occasion to a number of cap-and-gowned young men and their relatives and admirers, who are the actors in the colorful drama enacted under the Japanese lanterns in the dim aisles of the Yard. But two hundred years ago, Commencement Day was the occasion of a general jollification among the populace of Massachusetts as a whole. Drawn not by the main, or academic tent, whose attractions at this time consisted chiefly of orations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, but by the side-shows clustering around the big top, the countryfolk and townspeople flocked...