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...ropostale. In 1928 a plane of money-losing Compagnie G??nérale Aéropostale carrying a passenger from Morocco to Toulouse, flew into a severe storm over Spain. The pilot was pitched out of his cockpit and fell to death. The pilotless plane crashed, killing the passenger. Heirs sued for $20,000. Aéropostale argued that every precaution had been taken by government officials who inspected the planes and gave clearance for each departure. The storm, said the company, was clearly an Act of God. Last fortnight, the court ruled in favor of Aéropostale. Insisting that the company must...
Wagner used the legend of the Flying Dutchman for his fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die G??tterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long...
Anastasia Tchaikovsky, protég??e of various Eastern socialites who say she is Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, was reported about to be deported from the U. S., could nowhere be found. But Assistant Secretary of Labor William Walter Husband announced: "We could not deport her to Russia because we have no diplomatic relations with that country. There is no other country to which we could lawfully send...
Also confirmed was last year's announcement of the world première of a new Camille, by Mary Garden's protég?? and Mr. Insull's onetime office boy, Composer Hamilton Forrest (TIME, Nov. 4). Like Verdi's La Traviata it is based on La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Unlike Verdi, Composer Forrest has employed jazz songs and themes, changed the story to bring it "up-to-date," employed dialog described as "stark in its reality...
...Count chose to deliver an oracle conveyed to the meeting by War Minister G??mbö's: "Never fear! The Government will never permit a foreigner to mount the throne of Hungary...