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With a small roster of singers and a curtailed repertoire, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires opened last June its temporada grande (big season), which corresponds both in climate and in social brilliance with the winter seasons of U. S. operas. On its two greatest drawing cards the Colon could not retrench; immediately after the successful 1931 season it had signed contracts with Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Coloratura Soprano Lily Pons. But there was no cause for regret. When Lauri-Volpi departed last month he flung exuberantly to the Argentine internal loan fund 50,000 pesos ($12,500), half...
Sued. Max Bilgray, cabaret keeper of Colon, Panama; by David Hutton; for $1,000,000. Charge: defamation of the character of his wife, Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, famed evangelist. In honor of Mrs. Hutton's recent visit to his cabaret under the alias "Betty Adams," gracious Barkeep Bilgray devised a cocktail, published its formula, named it "Halleluiah...
...from Nicaragua roared two U. S. Marine planes carrying medical relief. They had a hard time landing in the rubble. Out of Colon sped the U. S. cruiser Rochester. The gunboat Sacramento set out at once from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and the minesweeper Swan steamed up from Trujillo, Honduras, with food, water, bandages. Out of Kingston, Jamaica, raced H. M. S. Danae to help her own people...
...DEAR SIR COLON PERMIT ME TO BEAT JOHN AND RANDOLPH TO THE DRAW BY DISCLAIMING KINSHIP WITH THAT DISTINGUISHED BROTHERHOOD [TIME, Aug. 31] PERIOD NOT THAT I CARE COMMA BUT JUST IN CASE THEY SHOULD PERIOD MY BROTHER IS A TROMBONE PLAYER COMMA UNHEARD OF BUT BY NO MEANS UNHEARD STOP THANKS PERIOD...
When Dr. Kyle Wood Golley and Dr. Edward Patrick Smith saw what Mrs. Forster was producing, they sent a hurry call for Surgeon Daniel James Pessagno. He cut the children apart, left each about an inch of colon. He used no anesthetic, for newborn children feel no pain. Since it is possible to exist without a colon, Mrs. Forster's children may live long. If so, surgeons will try to naturalize their orifices...