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...historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel who for the occasion was Napoleon III. Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky...
...finishing touches to a deal started some months ago when Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law H. H. Kung visited Rome. Still owing the Italian Government is a balance of $2,000,000 in gold from the Boxer indemnity squeezed from the old Empress Dowager in 1901. It was agreed last week that this balance should be devoted to buying Italian war planes for use against Japan, a business that had become practically a U. S. monopoly. First shipment of 20 fighting planes was already en route to China last week. As a special premium with the deal...
...heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks-the cameramen of New York Harbor-by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell the old fool to turn around!" Shaw, outraged, seized the cameraman and shook him by the shoulders. Meantime other cameras clickety-clicked, including that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above...
Next day aboard the S. S. Empress of Britain Mr. Shaw received a good-by kiss from the elderly daughter of the late...
Macrobiosian indeed is the "Delhi Durbar" which opens this year's circus. For large-scale panoply purposes the celebration which took place in Old Delhi, India, after crafty Prime Minister Disraeli secured for Queen Victoria the additional title of Empress of India, was reproduced in the Garden with such historic fidelitv that the lead elephant's name was Technocracy. Another one, Lily the Golden, was a massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts...