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...accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept at attention by the national anthem...
...NEVER BECOME OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM...
...band again played The Star-Spangled Banner. This time I was one of the throng about the platform, which was brilliantly lighted; but I again kept my hat upon my head. A lady, a member of a group standing near, said: "Take off your hat to our national anthem " replied: "Madam, The Star-Spangled Banner is not the national anthem of America, for it has never been authorized by Congress." She expressed surprise. At that moment a gentleman approached me from behind, tapped me on the shoulder, and said-'Excuse me, sir, you have forgotten your hat." I said...
...There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons; officials, including the Burgomaster and the President of the Storting (Parliament) became apoplectic with admiration and praise; Amundsen replied that he was speechless. More cheering, hymns, the national anthem...
...furs, bareheaded. Explorer Roald Amundsen paced the bridge of the collier Albr. W. Selmer. At the ship's bows, a grinding noise. Up came the anchor, off went a thunderous salute from the Norwegian Government steamer Heimdal near by. Spectators ashore raised their voices in the Norwegian national anthem and the Albr. W. Selmer puffed laboriously out of Kings Bay, Spitsbergen (Norwegian possession), bound for Horten, Norway, about 1,500 miles northeast of there...