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...midst of tumultuous scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
...Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
...winning pair consisted of Maurice Brocco "the little wop," and Marcel Buysse, native Belgian. For six days the architectural monstrosity of Madison Square resounded with the cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" Idlers and sportsmen of a type would step in to see the race at odd intervals, would cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" and depart...
...evening, and in the same hall, Marcel Dupre, one of the most eminent of organists...
...relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs, lamps, windows and the platform were broken. Then numerous revolver shots. People fled in panic. Seventeen lay on the floor...