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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poise than do many of the singers who have had long experience on the Metropolitan stage. Her voice was uneven but at its best it was vibrantly warm, true in its top notes, rich when it was low. More than most of her predecessors in the rôle, she made Wagner's heroine deeply human, truly suggested the varying moods, projected them forcefully. Three days later she again made a vivid impression singing Ortrud in Lohengrin...
What have endeared M. Besson most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
Most of his campaign speeches have been made from the branches of trees or clinging to lamp posts. Thirteen times the voters of Le Puy have elected him either their Municipal Councilor or Mayor. The fourteenth time (1932) they sent him as their Deputy to Paris where he continued his habit of making long speeches at the drop...
...youth of two nations. Moreover, not only were the ancient glories of France displayed to the visitors but an intimate view was also given of the modern France. There was a visit to the Manufacture de Sevres where the famous porcelain wares are turned out; a tour of the Le Printemps, which is a leading department store; and an excursion to the Renault motor car factory...
Died. Dr. Francis Le Roy Satterlee, 54, U. S. pioneer in x-ray photography and research, inventor of many a radio reception device; of heart disease and x-ray burns for which he had undergone 44 skin-grafting operations and amputations; in Montauk...