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Last week from an attic at Andernay near Nancy, fear-stricken Armand Joseph Bolon was dragged into the light by French gendarmes who had been searching for him for 22 years. Bolon fell wounded in the first month of the War. His patriotism dimmed by this experience, he deserted in August 1914. Ever since, implacable deserter-hunters of the French Sûreté Nationale have been on his trail. Deserter Bolon, however, had adopted the brilliant ruse of simply going home, never stirring out of his father's attic. Neighbors who have been...
...bien, Armand, what have you there...
...Armand! Armand! What are those great things sticking up in the air over across the Rhine...
...Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri...
...heard her in the popular-priced Hippodrome performances and in the Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly, rich-voiced woman who sings with authority and acts as if she thoroughly enjoyed being the life of the party. Back as the luckless Don Jose was Armand Tokatyan. for eleven years (1922-33) a leading Metropolitan tenor. Newcomer was pretty little Natalie Bodanskaya, 22, who grew up in a $9-a-month, cold-water flat in Manhattan's slums. Soprano Bodanskaya made her debut as the timid Micaela, won a warm ovation for her clear, fluty...