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...Right Reverend Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon, 72, Dean of Durham, onetime (1892-98) Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, Headmaster of Harrow School (1885-98), Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India (1898-1902), translator of various works of Aristotle: "It is difficult for me to understand how educated men and women can find pleasure in hunting and killing animals...
...program follows: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Ballet Music Gluck-Mottl Tambourin--Gavotte--Chaconne Turkish March from "The Ruins of Athens" Beethoven Ride of the Valkyries from "The Valkyrie" Wagner Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Suite, "Namouna" Lalo "Children's Corner," Suite Debussy-Caplet "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier Indian Sketches Gilbert Prelude--Invocation--Snake Dance Largo Handel Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
...Bois de Boulogne and dancing on tables in Maxim's, and at the same time trying to marry a widow for her fortune. I demand the immediate payment of 50,000 francs [$2,000]. The film constitutes a serious libel on myself, my family, chiefly my sister, the Queen of Italy, and on my late lamented country, Montenegro. "Although The Merry Widow has been presented as a light opera for over 20 years, I have never until now raised any objection because the character of 'Danilo' has always been represented as pleasing and sympathetic...
...Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg...
...since Queen Marie of Rumania crossed the land has there been such a transcontinental spectacle in the U. S. One hundred leather-lunged, semi-nude runners jog out of Los Angeles. Judges, timekeepers, trainers, newspapermen, wives, best girls, small brothers jostle along behind the joggers in an enormous motor cavalcade...