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Singers had returned from between-season holidays, stages and canopies had been rebuilt, guarantors were glancing over their bank accounts last week as summer opera began in these cities: Cincinnati, In the Zoological Garden there is a covered auditorium through whose open sides one may gaze over green lawns and gardens to a lake where swans and ducks swim. Sometimes during a pianissimo a lion's distant roar intrudes. Zoo men are careful to lock up the peacocks on opera nights. Here last week Ambroise Thomas' Mignon and Friedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride opened Cincinnati...
...after the death of its owner Victor Fremont Lawson for over $13,500,000 (a record price for a daily newspaper); of coronary occlusion (stoppage of blood vessels at the heart); in Winnetka, Ill. A onetime (1926-27) director of the Associated Press, he was a guarantor of the Chicago Civic Opera, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Publisher Strong also bought (1929) and consolidated with the News the Chicago Journal, Chicago's oldest daily...
...fleet of cars drew up at the gate of the palace. In the first car sat Dr. Gregorio Maranon, prominent Republican, guarantor for the safety of the caravan. King & Queen bade each other a tearful goodbye. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children began their flight to France by driving to the Escorial, that rambling building 31 miles from Madrid that is at the same time a monastery, a church, a palace and a mausoleum, whose name is literally "The Dump." A curious crowd gathered at the Escorial railroad station where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled...
...obstacles accomplishments and prospects; an economic program for the League of Nations designed to prevent world-wide economic depressions; harmonizing the League Covenant with the Pact of Paris; growth of international cooperation through the League of Nations; an evaluation of the effectiveness of the League of Nations as the guarantor of the rights of minorities...
When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street...