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...Petrus! Shouts of "Papa! Papa! Evviva Il Papa!" always greet the Holy Father as he is carried through St. Peter's, but last week the fervor of those expressions reached pandemonium when it was seen by all that the Pope's jaw was set, and that he visibly clenched it harder as the Sistine Choir burst into a mighty chant of "TU ES PETRUS!" ("Thou art Peter...
Next the Coolidges went out to Hollywood. At the Warner Brothers Studio Viennese Nights was being filmed. As they entered upon a beer garden set, a chorus of 200 men and women about the tables rose to greet them with a tremendous song With Will Hays, Mary Pickford Fairbanks and Jack Warner, they took seats on a dais to watch the "shooting" of several scenes. Mrs. Coolidge laughed as Louise Fazenda made love to Bert Roach across a beer table. Mr. Coolidge did not laugh. The visitors were then shown a "playback" of the scenes just taken in a nearby...
...inquired for himself at the expensive Hotel Boabdil, thinking he would thus get a sight of the hotel register, see who was there. To his dismay the porter said the gentleman was in and was expecting him, led Tristram to a room. An elderly stranger rose to greet him: it was Tristram himself, but middleaged. He fainted, came to himself in the lobby of the hotel, left Granada next day. Soon he forced himself to forget. Many years later he had become a popular writer, rich, famed; again he came to Granada on a holiday, put up at the still...
...delegation assembled aboard the S. S. George Washington at her pier in Hoboken. Delegate Charles Francis Adams, last to leave Washington, traveled to Jersey City in a special train, filled with advisers, clerks, stenographers, correspondents and servants. There Democratic Mayor Frank Hague drew up a reception committee to greet him at the station. But Delegate Adams hurried so fast to catch his boat that the committee never saw him. Aboard the George Washington he found himself assigned to the same suite that President Woodrow Wilson had occupied eleven years ago when he sailed for the Paris Peace Conference...
Reporters with belted overcoats and large black cameras crowded the platform of Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof to greet the most interesting man in Austria, eagle-beaked Monsignor Ignaze Seipel, onetime Prime Minister of Austria, leader of the Christian Socialist Party, crafty cleric, on his return from delivering a series of theological lectures at the University of the tiny independent Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. As the ex-Prime Minister alighted, the newshawks blurted quick questions. Was it true that he favored the return of the Habsburgs to reign in Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom...