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...great Enrico Caruso enact the bearded Jew in Halevy's La Juive, the last performance Caruso ever gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with...
...saying of a friend, 'He is one who on a market day,' and leaving the rest to the listener's common sense." When winter sets in in earnest, the manse is isolated from the rest of the village: sometimes the pastor has to preach at his flock from across the brook. He is lonely, but his one neighbor, old Mrs. Lindinnock, always waves goodnight to him by pulling her windowshade up & down. When one fine night a young and beautiful stranger appears with old Mrs. Lindinnock at a sociable, and even calls on him at the manse...
...gathering of some twenty-five students and a few faculty men discussed ways and means for getting the college out of doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus behind a few lively skiers to climb hills in the vicinity of Hanover, Etna, or Norwich, their odd clothing and clumsy gait provoking more derision than enthusiasm in college circles...
...Food conditions, in the opinion of Russians are the worst since the famine of 1921," cabled Chicago Daily News' William H. Stoneman last week. "The clothing supply is still inadequate... Peasants fron the impoverished countryside continue to flock to the centres, bringing bedbugs and dirty habits, disrupting sanitary arrangements...
...Other well-known Midwestern prelates: Fort Wayne's Bishop John Francis Noll, influential editor of Our Sunday Visitor; Indianapolis' Bishop Joseph Chartrand, probably closer in contact with his flock than any other; Oklahoma City's Bishop Francis Clement Kelley, well-known in Washington and abroad...