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...Amelita Galli-Curci, 45, who still sings profitably in South Africa and India where she has no youthful coloratura rivals...
...Chapter III shows the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the declarations of war. The eight chapters that follow are packed with sequences so exciting in themselves and so lightly related to each other that it is almost impossible to pick out individually memorable shots. Among the best are: General Galliéni's army hurrying out of Paris to the First Battle of the Marne in Renault taxis; the Austrian flagship St. Stephan sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army drawn across the snow-covered Vosges Mountains...
...loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges of France General Alexander Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia Admiral Philippe Berthelot Police Inspector Calestin Galli Policeman Felix Forestier Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen was not alone...
...name is Sarah Wambaugh. She used to teach economics and history at Radcliffe and Wellesley. Last week the League of Nations picked her, with two men, to umpire that headline event Woodrow Wilson scheduled for sometime in 1935-the Saar plebiscite. The other umpires are Italy's Bindo Galli, president of Genoa's Court of Appeals, and Holland's L. A. Nypel, Supreme Court Justice. The three umpires will try to see that the Saar citizens, including Germans who lived in the area when the Versailles Treaty was signed (June 28, 1919), vote "freely and fairly...
Tibbett's success is reminiscent of the boom years, which for concerts ended not with the stock crash but with radio and sound movies which came in at a time when the market was already imperilled by too many second-rate artists. In the boom years Galli-Curci and John McCormack were the big money-making concert singers. They would get 100 engagements a season and they needed no advertising. Phonograph records built up their names, besides earning them royalties which year after year ran over $100,000. Deflation has weeded out second-raters and for the top-notchers...