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...King, accompanied by Queen Mary and Prince Henry, drove in semi-state to "the city" followed by a troop of the Royal Household Cavalry. At the Temple Bar, the Lord Mayor met their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building...
Albert, King of the Belgians, gave an audience in the Royal Palace to a group of Rotarians, headed by Everett W. Hill of Oklahoma City, Okla., President of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, which met at Brussels...
...commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal, a student marched in wearing the bronze fig leaf around his neck. He made a statue Venus, "an arrangement of planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, London, and for weeks people gathered in front of it and roared with laughter...
...another fall, the traditional corollary of pride, might not misbecome the famed soprano, was also suggested by the press, which commented unfavorably on her irritability. In London, Covent Garden, prostituted all winter as a profitable cinema palace, a dance hall, opened its operatic season. Prince Henry sat in the Royal Box; U. S. Ambassador Houghton was there; Covent Garden regained its pride. The yearly deficits of the Covent Garden Opera Company have run as high as ?70,000. De Muro...
...parents, people of quality, decided that it would perhaps be more becoming if he turned professional. In 1911, at the age of 28, he made his debut in the Costanzi Theatre at Rome, created a sensation which won him a three-year contract with La Scala. Now the royal families of Italy and Spain attend his concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know it. I won't pay to be heard...