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...Flagstad sang, the house was crowded to the doors and Tristan und Isolde became the season's bestseller. Question on every side was where such a singer had been keeping herself. Answer was that for 20 years she had had an uneventful career in Norway, singing at the Oslo Opera house where her talent was taken for granted...
Mouthpiece of Japan's claims is the great Japanese Liberal, Count Michimasa Soyejima, insurance man and onetime Imperial Chamberlain, who claims that Benito Mussolini told him last February that Italy would withdraw in Japan's favor. A month later, at the Oslo, Norway meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Italian delegates denied this, reasserted Italy's claim. Last week, with a war and the possibility of a League of Nations boycott on his hands, Benito Mussolini heard with dismay that nonLeague Member Japan might cooperate in a League boycott. Japanese goods looked far better last week...
...disappearance from the Wyoming in Oslo, Norway of Midshipman Kenneth Barr was discovered when a Norwegian girl came aboard tor a tea dance and said he was expecting her. Soon found was a Norwegian chauffeur who said that Midshipman Barr had dismissed him near Lake Gjersjoeen, ten miles from Oslo, remarking, "I am going to picnic in the woods." All Norwegian radio stations then inquired for Midshipman Barr and helpful Norwegians responded by deluging the U. S. Consulate at Oslo with telegrams, notes and post cards conjecturing where he might be. Ultimately Picnicker Barr was arrested by Swedish frontier guards...
...famed, sharp-eyed founder of the Oxford Groups ("Buchmanites") practically admits in his speeches, the guidance of God often comes to him in the form of choppy, telegraphic memoranda. In Oslo last March Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman declared: "Before I landed in Norway it came constantly in my Quiet Times...
...winter without a symphony orchestra. The Musical Association was unable to raise funds sufficient even for the promised twelve-week season. The downhearted musicians refused to play for less. Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...