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...much about his friend's era if he is not aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus her main battery, it having been still in the foundry when she had to leave Spain. The whole Spanish cruiser force could not throw a broadside equal in weight to that of the U. S. battleship Oregon, which belonged to an armada of four battleships...
...congregated in Newport's Casino Theatre. There they viewed the First Century Christian Fellowship cinema Bridge Builders, later enjoyed a buffet supper, beamed, chatted in the ballroom of the Casino. Practically all were oldsters. The younger set had had their shindig the night before at a "White Elephant Bal Masque" at the Newport Country Club...
...Iphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Glee Club Diffusa est gratia (Motet) Nanino Tutti Venite armati(Villanella) Gastoldi Address: "Harvard, Present and Future" President Conant Glee Club Harvard Hymn Paine The Pierian Sodality Menuetto: Allegro molte (Symphony I) Beethoven Turmmusik for Brass Instruments Johann Pezel Intrada-Allemande-Courante_Courante-Sarabande-Bal-Gigue Danse Espagnole, from "La Vida Breve" de Falla Glee Club Praestat hoc nobis Chadwick
...spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside. The bal loon drifted southeast across Lake Erie, slowly rose to ten miles. Radio communi cation with the ground was fragmentary. Mrs. Piccard worried because she could not see the ground for clouds. Gas was valved and the balloon went down. As it flirted with the treetops, the Piccards donned football helmets. When...
Technical high spot of this show is Bil Bal Bul, the Little Acrobat, worked by four operators on 20 strings. He hunches himself to gather momentum as he swings in air, never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli...