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...that it was "Monsieur de Paris," traditional name for France's executioner, otherwise Anatole Joseph Deibler, 76.* Immediately another closed van rattled into the square and out jumped the assistant executioners, a priest, and a scowling, square-jawed man in shirtsleeves. Again the whisper went round: "C'est lui! C'est Sarret!" Georges Alexander Sarrejani, alias Sarret, was a Trieste-born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel...
...owned Canadian National*) and only eleven commercial banks. But solemn Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett has broad powers under The Emergency Relief Act. C. P. R.'s request was granted after it had pledged with the Government $100,000,000 face value of senior securities on which inter- est was being earned even last year. To let C. P. R. go to the wall for lack of a guarantee would have been unthinkable. C. P. R. is not only a $1.000.000.000 railroad but also a Dominion tradition which peopled the prairies. It operates hotels, steamships, telegraph lines...
...opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait so long to hear her at the Metropolitan. Chicago had her for a few performances in 1931 and 1932. From Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and London have come ecstatic reports of her Leonore in Fidelia, her Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. New Yorkers who had heard...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...
...Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according to Palace officials: "I saw it from a window. I thought it would crash either on the roof or in the courtyard." ¶Day before, hard by Marble Arch, Their Majesties inspected London's new est luxury hotel, The Cumberland, which opened last week boasting 1,000 air-conditioned bedrooms.* To save George V from death by pneumonia his Bucking ham bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George...