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TIME (Jan. 21), in telling about Circusman John Ringling's purchase of the tub in which Jean Paul Marat was assas sinated by Charlotte Corday, mentioned Tubmen Diogenes and Earl Carroll, omitted Archimedes...
John Ringling, circusman, purchased last week for $400 the bathtub in which French Revolutionist Jean Paul Marat was lolling when Charlotte Corday assassinated him. Other famed bathtubs, unpriced, are linked with Diogenes, Earl Carroll...
From Paris to Manhattan by air is a feat that has stimulated and perturbed Frenchmen since the days of lost Heroes Nungesser and Coli. Last week Lieut. Paulin Paris, Mechanician Marat, Radioman Cadou set out to accomplish it in a hydroplane. They reached the island of Fayal in the Azores safely. Then they refuelled, prepared to hop to Bermuda, to Manhattan...
...geophagists, or 'dirt eaters' who came from leagues around to partake of the succulent and nutritive clay still to be found in this part of Paris. . . . Apparently clay eating continued in Montmartre until comparatively recent times. . . . For example, when Charlotte Corday assassinated the revolutionary demagogue, Jean Paul Marat on July 13, 1793, she may not have known that he had just quaffed a decanter full of powdered Montmartre clay steeped in almond water...
Composer Mascagni believes that all his operas are as good, if not better, than Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking...