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Professor Halvdan Koht, visiting lecturer at Harvard from the University of Oslo, Norway, is the author of a two volume "Life of Ibsen" to be published by W. W. Norton and the American-Scandinavian Foundation late in March. Coming from Ibsen's birth-place, Skien, the author is intimately aware of the Ibsen traditions. And as editor of Ibsen's letters published during his life had exceptional opportunities for conferring with the dramatist...
...Norwegian Pioneer Whaling Co. of Oslo received a large order last week. Authorities of Luna Park, Paris amusement grounds, instructed the whalers to catch 25 of the largest whales they could find, 100 of the fattest penguins. The 25 whales, embalmed, the 100 penguins, alive, will be placed with Luna Park's rollercoasters, merry-go-rounds, hot-dog stands as this season's prize exhibit. Cost per penguin: $125. Cost per whale...
Queen Maud spends much of her time in her native land (Crown Prince Olav of Norway was born in England, went to Oxford). But emphatically the Norwegian people do not consider their Royal Family "strangers." Money for the Jubilee celebration was unhesitatingly voted by the municipality of Oslo, Socialist though...
...Their Majesties reverse the usual royal tactics of courting popularity and employing journalists to puff them, if King Haakon with excessive modesty is still self-conscious in Norway after reigning securely for a quarter-century, if Queen Maud goes about her shopping in Oslo completely unattended and sometimes unrecognized, this strange royal conduct seems to be exactly what Norwegians like. A quaint, possibly significant scrapbook is kept by Their Majesties. She pastes into the section headed We Never Did or Said This newsclippings of that sort. The rest of the scrapbook, much the larger section, bears mute but gracious royal...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...