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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced early last week that plump and amiable Empress Menen of Ethiopia would speak to Britain and the U. S. over the short-wave radio. Italian spies were not caught napping. No sooner did Her Majesty begin in halting French, than on the same wave length blasts of Morse code gibberish drowned out her words. What she was saying in Addis Ababa...
...exact length of time which will be allotted the four left in the competition rests with C. Colmery Gibson '37. Gibson could not be reached last night to set any limit...
...shuttle re45lay affair is run over a straightaway with two men at each end. The first man runs over the 110-yard distance, hands the baton to the man at the other end, who returns back over the same length returning the baton...
...Sunday and Monday, April 26 and 27, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky is to conduct two performances of Bach's renowned St. Matthew Passion, with the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and six noted soloists filling the respective parts. The work is of unusual length, and, as with the Mass in B minor, will be given in two sections, one in the afternoon and one in the evening of each of the two days. Both performances will take place at Symphony Hall in Boston...
First discord came when photographers asked the girls to pose so that they would reveal their legs at full length. "But we are not show people," objected one of the few who spoke English. "We are artistes! Artists of the ballet!" The general public at first seemed as slow to understand as the persistent cameramen. After a gilded first night (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe performed time & again to half-empty houses. Last week the troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt...