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...onetime monarch last week ascended what used to be called his throne. But while it may be shown that the youth of the nation no longer tenders baseball prime allegiance, fathers and grandfathers, uncles and great uncles, and probably lots of older brothers and cousins and perhaps some female relatives, still believe in the diamond as the centre of national sport. They turned out by the thousand in various sections of the country to see the first balls of the year pitched in National and American League parks...
...Viceroy is, however, by no means a mere political heir who ascended his appointed throne last week. Since 1910, when he was 29, he has been consistently returned to the House of Commons as a Conservative; and following the War he began to serve in high official capacities. In 1921 he was made Parliamentary UnderSecretary for the Colonies; in 1922 President of the Board of Education; and, with the advent of the Baldwin Conservative Government, Minister of Agriculture, which he resigned to take the viceroy ship...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...
...International scoundrelism conceives the abduction of Leo XIII,* surrounds the conception with an authentic verisimilitude that makes the act itself unnecessary and thus preys upon the wealthy religious, whose money is lavishly devoted to the liberation of the Pope from the Castle of St. Angelo, his restoration to the throne. This is the background. There are few characters. These, saints and sinners alike, register their reactions with rational fidelity except in the crises of the narrative. Precisely when they need to be most convincing they become incredible. One only, Protos, mastermind of the plot, arch-rogue and conspirator, reveals through...
...Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook in Shady Spot Then Round about the Starry Throne, from "Samson" Handed