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...week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired. The U.S. War Department offered him an Army plane wherewith to complete his voyage. Said Lt. Benny, sharply aware of his flight's significance to his native Colombia: "It was very considerate...
Last week, stowaway Lanier was removed from The City of New York at Colon, Panama, because he is physically unfit for antarctic exploration; he has a police record for disorderly conduct and abusive language...
Count Michael Karolyi, first President of Hungary, for three years barred from this country because of his socialistic tendencies, arrived on the liner Cristobal Colon, en route from Mexico to Spain. He was astounded to learn that a technicality of the immigration laws allowed him 60 hours ashore. "Another of those quaint American paradoxes," said he. "I had expected to be chained to the Statue of Liberty...
...personnel of El Colon does not disgrace its surroundings. Since the southern season occurs precisely at the time when there is no important opera in the U. S. and when European Opera is passing through its slack season, El Colon can? engage many of the most notable singers from either continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti...
...Teatro Colon is no ordinary South-American opera house, such a dirty and pretentious little place as is to be found in almost every town, full of onion-eating opera lovers gazing at tenors who yodel and choke. El Teatro Colon is an enormous building of marble and white cement, facing a palmed piazza. In it there is room for 3,500 people to sit; these all come invariably in evening dress...