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...part in 1900, 1910, 1922. Now 55, he was considered too old to play it again by the 21 electors chosen by all Oberammergau to determine the cast. Says he: "You do not know what a great physical strain it is to hang on the cross for a half-hour." Instead of risking heart failure in this fashion, Anton Lang will read the prologs to the 18 acts and 25 tableaux, a duty customarily undertaken by those who have played the Christ...
...booklet (an advertisement of Winchester Repeating Arms Co.) told of a "noted opera singer" who wagered he could earn $10 per hour by street singing. Disguised as a humble Italian, he began in the courtyard of a luxurious Manhattan apartment house. In one half-hour...
Samuel Insull, patron, and Giorgio Polacco, conductor, of the Chicago Civic Opera, spent a half-hour explaining U. S. technical and artistic problems to Benito Mussolini...
President Hoover ordered guns at all U. S. Army posts throughout the world to boom out every half-hour for a full day, to fire a 48-pound salute at sundown. Members of the Supreme Court prepared to follow the casket as the honorary pallbearers. Congress adjourned. Washington was enveloped in mourning. ¶. It took President Hoover's Haiti Commission less than a week of investigating at Port-au-Prince to forward its first and most important recommendation to the White House. The recommendation: Selection of a temporary neutral President to succeed Louis Borno, to be followed...
...0ver the "red network" (23 stations) ot National Broadcasting Co., any half-hour after 6 p. m. costs $3,250. With an additional $1,500 for entertainment, the total cost for reaching an estimated audience of 8,000,000 people is a little over one-half the cost of a full page in the Saturday Evening Post ($8,000 for 3,000,000 people...