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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caruso and loves to tell about the days when he taught Italy's Queen Margherita to play the mandolin. Salmaggi has an Aïda complex. He has given Verdi's spectacular opera in Egypt at the foot of the pyramids, in Mexico City's bull ring, in dozens of open-air stadiums. He uses elephants, camels, horses. The Hippodrome venture started out as an all-Aïda affair. Some 10,000 passes were given out for the first performances but to the management's amazement hundreds had to be turned away from the boxoffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Pays | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...theory that dollars, if sound, are not a bad investment, Wall Street sold stocks & commodities, caused their prices to decline. Alarmed, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin declared in Washington that the U. S. Delegation could not have agreed in London to even tentative dollar stabilization. This restored uncertainty-a bull point in WalI Street-and prices firmed. But in London the fury of Frenchmen knew no bounds. Le Gouverneur, they thought, had tricked the Conference to win his Monetary Chairmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CONFERENCE: Disgust | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...nick of time the villain. The role of the latter is promptly and gratifyingly usurped by a midnight sortie of lions and tigers from their cages. The picture also begins to escape at this moment. For the rescue of both one is admiringly grateful to Rajah, the bull elephant...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/16/1933 | See Source »

...Holmes, using an electric torch instead of the traditional bull's-eye lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...ears are trimmed and pointed a metal mold is taped on to hold them up. This is left for three days, removed for two, sometimes put back for another three. The wounds usually take three weeks to heal. Boston Terrier, Great Dane, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher, Brussels Griffon and Bull Terrier are the breeds commonly cropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dog Ears | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

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