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...Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received...
...revival was a gala occasion. A throat affliction prevented Soprano Rosa Ponselle from appearing as Donna Anna. But Leonora Corona, pretty, fat-cheeked Texan, sang creditably if not brilliantly a role she had had only four weeks to prepare. Other interpretations were careful, unexciting. Italian Ezio Pinza made a dashing Don in brocaded breeches and wide-plumed hats, but his voice lacked the subtlety needed for Mozart's tunes...
...evening in Detroit with a gala entertainment for the students and band will be the program offered for those taking the trip to the Michigan game on the special Harvard train. The several carloads of rooters will spend over five hours during their stay in the Michigan Capital, either seeing the city or reveling under the direction of the Harvard Club of Detroit, who are planning festivities for all Harvard supporters within available distance, during the stop-over...
Last week came the Silver Jubilee (25 years) of the Fox Theatres, announced by lavish two-page newspaper advertisements that told of gala performances, mysteriously adding: "Far more important than even the entertainment, will be a message from William Fox of vital concern to the future welfare of every patron of Fox theatres...
...completed in February. Of course, the meet would rest on the contingency that the pool be ready for use in good time, and it is possible that uncertainty on this score would prejudice Harvard's chances to obtain the meet. It is certain that the event would prove a gala opening for the new pool and would do immeasurable good in stimulating interest in aquatic sports in Cambridge. It is to be hoped that what is now at best only an uncertain rumor may some day become a fact...