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March 18-22-Printing exposition at Richmond, Va. Occasion: 200th anniversary of introduction of Virginia's first printing press...
March 18-22-Printing exposition at Richmond, Va. Occasion : 200th anniversary of introduction of Virginia's first printing press...
...been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering as the aged philosopher. Transformed by Mephistopheles, stripped of his old-man's robe and shorn of beard and matted wig, he revealed unromantic jowls above a figure sadly heavy for his 38 years. Thereupon he proceeded...
...midnight in the District of Columbia jail & asylum, the middle of the night for most convicts, the beginning of a new day for one, the beginning of the 200th day since he entered jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate. When the hour had struck, he, No. 10,520, stepped out to the prison yard and once more became Harry Ford Sinclair, a free oilman...
Baltimore's Aviation. Baltimore at her 100th anniversary (1829) fell in step with the very first U. S. railroads. At her 200th anniversary celebration last week (see p. 16) she was not only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane...