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...most important festival beginning July 22, ending Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 22, Aug. 1, 5, 9, 20 and Tristan und Isolde July 23, Aug. 6, 10, all to be conducted by Arturo Toscanini;* Parsifal July 25, Aug. 2, 7, 13, 21, under Karl Muck; the first Ring cycle July 25, 27, 29, 31 under Karl Elmendorff; the second Ring cycle Aug. 14, 15, 17, 19 under Siegfried Wagner...
...York in the last two years, the Treasury Department last week sent a questionnaire. Promised immunity, each was asked whether he had given the customs inspectors at the pier a gratuity, whether any had been asked. Purpose of the quiz: to break up petty customs graft, to smash a ring of narcotic smugglers...
...Buenos Aires, terrified sextons, devout churchgoers, and two policemen found Guido Francveschini in the belfry of the church of Nuestra Señora de Buenos Aires. Lying on his back, with bell ropes tied to his feet, he was waving his legs in the air to ring the bells...
Asked how he dared ring bells in such a fashion, Guido Francveschini jumped up, explained that his arms had grown tired. Said he: "I really don't know why I am ringing the bells. No one seems to understand me. I am a devout man and believe in God. Bells were made to ring-to ring forever. When I was a child it used to make me very happy to hear the bells ringing on Sunday...
Guido Francveschini then began to ring the chimes. He was removed to a lunatic asylum...