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...Manhattan Das Rheingold, second of the Wagner matinee cycle, was given at the Metropolitan Opera House. Thousands jammed their way through the great front doors, determined not to miss the only performance of the season of the first "Ring" opera. In through the back door went a short, dumpy old lady, in a seagoing hat and an old brown storm coat. She was Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 65 years old, appearing at the Metropolitan for the first time in nine years, 38 years* after her debut there as Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas...
...indicated (TIME, June 29), the Pandit Motilal Nehru was elected leader of the Swarajist (Home Rule) Party in the place of C. R. Das, dead...
...Swaraj," Mr. Das once said, "is indefinable, but the same as self-government, democracy and home rule." More specifically, it means self-government within the British Empire, and concomitantly substitution of the tauchayet (village) system of administration for the religious minorities system now in partial operation...
...such questions were forgotten by the tens of thousands that watched the remains of Chitta Ranjan Das pass through the streets of Calcutta to their last resting place. He was a leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great...
Died. Chitta Ranjan Das, 57, Indian Nationalist; at Darjeeling, Bengal, India (see COMMONWEALTH...