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...Gates's performers was Clyde Pangborn who flew around the world last year and got into trouble with Japanese authorities for taking photographs over forbidden area. Said "Cy" Caldwell, associate editor of Aero Digest: ". . . If Ivan had been on the job, Clyde not only could have taken the pictures but Ivan would have charged the Mikado $10 for looking at them and sold him a snapshot of himself and a bag of peanuts for $1 more...
Benjamin March, curator of Asiatic Art at the Detroit Institute of Art, will speak on the "The Forbidden City, Peking" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the large lecture hall of the Fogg Art Museum...
...week, after three years' absence, Chaliapin returned to the U. S. to give nine concerts for a much lower fee than the $4,000 he used to ask.* Again newsmen asked about Russia. In halting English he told how the Soviets had taken away his lands, his money, had forbidden him to call himself any longer "The People's Singer." When he was dead, said he in broken voice, he would go back to Russia...
...boldly forward regardless of the incredible cacophony which they produced. Each man bawled out his own part in his own time more or less regardless of his neighbors, trusting to Heaven that he might end with the rest. Words of the mass were fitted to folk-tunes and the forbidden modes of secular music were smuggled into the church service. On top of all this the singers are reported to have indulged in violent swaying of the body, in facial contortions, and in the practice of omitting animal cries when the spirit moved. Things went so for that Pope John...
...Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical cases. Padre Pio and Therese Neumann were forbidden to receive pilgrims. Padre Pio was ordered to cease singing mass in the Apulian village where a cult almost of sainthood has grown up around him. The Holy Office put on the Index Expurgatorius the large amount of mystic literature written around Padre Pio, and suppressed a community of women...