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...unprecedented for a cinemactor to aspire to opera. Hope Hampton with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (TIME, Dec. 31). Richard Dix also takes his singing seriously. And last week it was pressagented that Charles Ray, 38, is cultivating his high tenor voice for a career. According to one Alfredo Martino, a Manhattan teacher. Cinemactor Ray takes two lessons a day when in town. At present he is touring with a vaudeville act in which he sings and plays the piano. It is a comedy act but now the famed Ray grin is just a mask for a great and earnest...
Brilliant were the tactics which allowed Lieut. Carrington to choose the Miraflores-Pedro Miguel letterbox for his correspondence. Off the Pacific entrance of the Canal had maneuvered the two opposing fleets, the attacking Blacks, 99 ships strong, and the defending Blues, with 75 ships. From Hampton Roads was steaming a theoretical supporting fleet ready to go through the Canal to the aid of the Blues. The issue: Could the Blacks bomb the Canal's locks, thus closing navigation before the reinforcements could arrive...
...bands played, no soldiers paraded, when President-Elect Hoover arrived back in Washington after leaving the Utah at Hampton Roads. Herbert Hoover Jr. met Mr. Hoover at the harbor, and Dr. Work, Senator Shortridge of California and a few minor statesmen were at the station. The President-Elect, arriving in Washington, went to the White House and was closeted with the President for a half hour. When they emerged, the President and President-Elect posed for photographs, and Mr. Hoover was plied with newsmen's questions. He declined to answer queries. "You will have to go to the fountain...
...single complaint during their shore leave in Brazil. Every man received a Christmas card autographed by President-Elect and Mrs. Hoover. Homecoming plans had been altered to make Washington, not Florida, the journey's end. Inasmuch as most of the Utah's personnel live closer to Hampton Roads than to Key West, the change meant that many of them could see wives, families, friends again, before departing on a three months cruise to Panama. It was with joyous tones that some 1,000 gobs gathered on the quarterdeck and sang for their passengers, "Are You Lonesome Tonight...
Unfortunately for news purposes it missed being a non-stop flight. Singer Hampton, too, had tried a turn in operetta-first in Madame Pompadour and then in My Princess. She had married profitably-one Jules Brulatour, who has sympathized generously with her operatic ambitions. There was a two years' intensive course in singing, an advertised Boheme canceled by laryngitis. Then came the debut as Manon which won her such verdicts as "pleasing," "promising," and the noisy approval of some 200 guests who went from Manhattan on a special train as special guests of Husband Brulatour...