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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This railway starts at sea level (port of Callao) and crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...made them young again? Surely this was not a modern musical adventure, despite its stock of radio and crossword puzzle jests. It was, rather, a curio dug up from the old downtown days. It had a soldier named Bang Bang, an ingenue named Fli Wun, a prince named Cha Ming, bandits named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned out to be a prince. It had a very large chorus that shuffled about with very short steps. It had a scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...following program will be given: Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Unfinished Symphony in B minor Shubert Recitative and aria, "Eri tu cha macciavi" Werdi Song of the Sandman and Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck Jaernefelt Berceuse Two Sentimental Tangos (for dancing) Vigil Thompson '22 "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" Purcell "Wie bist du meine Koenigen" Brahms Cartner "Love is Mine" (C. T. Leonard '23, accompanist.) Prelude to second act of "Louise" Charpantier Overture to "Oberon" Weber Tickets for the concert may be procured at the Cooperative Society, Herrick's, and the Copley Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY GIVES SEASON'S FIRST CONCERT | 12/3/1924 | See Source »

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