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Within two hours after this prediction, Rosa Ponselle sang her "Casta Diva." The great house listened. The top galleries bulged with humble music-lovers. In the boxes were the Italian Ambassador, Mme. Melba, Prince & Princess Bismarck, Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, Lady Cunard, Lords Leesdale, Colebrooke and Monteagle, and onetime King Manuel of Portugal and his consort. . . . From top to bottom Covent Garden yielded itself to the spell of a glorious voice, forgot all traditions, burst into riotous applause. The third act brought another demonstration...
...English athletes will sail on the S. S. Ascania of the Cunard Line on June 11, arriving in this country about two weeks before the meet. A tentative line up forwarded to the University athletic authorities is a follows: Sprints: B. M. Norton (O); 440-yards dash: R. Leigh Wood (O); 880-yard run: W. C. Went-worth (O), and N. H. Gutteridge (O); One-mile run: C. E. Green (C), and H. S. Townsend (O); Three-mile run: D. M. Wilson (C), and J. M. Humphrey (O): High hurdles: H.G. Harper (O), and I. R. Mann (C); Low Hurdles...
...Chapman company, announced that the Leviathan and later the ten other U. S. Lines vessels purchased from the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 18), would sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships bring beverage liquor into U. S. ports under seal. Said Mr. Sheedy: "All other trans...
...Cunard: "Excellent. We shall expect the gentleman a little before eleven...
That evening on the Cunard Pier, experienced U. S. reporters noted the "usual arrangements." It is the custom of Le Monsieur never to enter or leave a liner by the ordinary passenger gangplank. Low down on the Aquitania's side a wide, square port was opened, a short, level gangplank was run out from the pier, and, just before eleven, the plank was walked by John Pierpont Morgan...