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...practically unknown. After Lucia they changed their minds. Lily Pons, they found out then, was not big-chested and chunky like most Lucias. She was fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs...
MACKEREL SKY- Helen Ashton-Doubleday, Doran...
Domesticity is often thought to be drab, is capable of dreary interpretations. In Dr. Serocold (TIME, July 14), Helen Ashton showed how fetching a story she could make of a country doctor's 24 hours; in Mackerel Sky she tackles an even grimmer subject and makes it cheerfully readable...
Robert Winship Woodruff, 41, president of Coco-Cola Co. and White Motor Co., resigned the latter position, became chairman. New White president is Ashton G. Bean, previously president of Bishop & Babcock, Cleveland manufacturers of bottlers' and soda fountain machinery...
Ponies. To finance their U. S. visit, the four brother-poloists Ashton of Australia (TIME, Aug. 18) last week sold 25 of their ponies in less than one hour at auction in East Williston, L. I. Total receipts: $77,600. High price...