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...rescued from a sentence of execution arising out of his unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of Peru" (TIME, Dec. 7), bestowed upon him a golden laurel crown. With unique audacity he suggested that "the crown would be improved by the addition of a sufficient number of emeralds to give it a leafy green appearance." A subscription was raised. The emeralds were added...
Last November, Edwin Elmore, famed Peruvian publicist, once the revolutionary ally of José, fell a-quarreling with him in the doorway of a newspaper office at Lima. What occurred is uncertain. Poet José alleges that he, attacked by unarmed Publicist Elmore, drew his ever-ready revolver and killed in self-defense...
...Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics of the Western Hemisphere in singing "Auld Lang Syne," but it was a bad night and few got the tune. The stations heard most clearly by the U. S. were Lima, Buenos Aires and Madrid. Dubious reports filtered in from Germany and Russia that U. S. stations had been heard there...
...Japanese policeman waved them back. The tall swart man exclaimed impatiently, "I am the Brazilian Ambassador!" and strode on. Two policemen rushed up. Swiftly Ambassador R. de Lima Silva rapped one of them across the knuckles with his cane, and as the other still came on whacked him over the head. Then the crowd rushed him, his dog, his wife...
...production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition of a colorful and decorative, essentially two-dimensioned background. And against it the elaborate perfection of the actors' costume and make-up? created a Rembrandt effect of warmth and color...