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...past two years rumors issuing from Spain have pictured Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie as coming under the influence of a necromantic physician such as the notorious Rasputin. As doting Tsar Nicholas II fell under Rasputin's spell because he believed that the "Black Monk" and he alone could stop the bleeding of the Tsarevitch, so the Spanish Royal family were said by their enemies to be the dupes of a second charlatan. Spanish censorship veiled the facts...
...Monk's March...
...public $1.25. The program is as follows: Jerusalem Parry Me Ye Have Bereaved Morales Marching Brahms Three Pictures From "The Tower of Babel" Rubinstein May No Rash Intruder (from "Solomon") Handel Choruses from "Ruddigore" Sullivan Dirge For Two Veterans Hoist Fireflies--Russian Folk Song Three Welsh Folk Songs The Monk's March O' Why Camest Thou Before Me? Men of Harlech Summer Evening Student Song of Finland Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor
Genoa claims the birth of Christobal Colon, so do six other towns. Columbus' early life is wrapped in obscurity. Says Wassermann: he told conflicting tales about his origins, his early experiences. "He was as morose as a monk, crafty as a peasant, without a glimmer of humor-a character unrelieved by a single ray of cheerfulness. A man of sighs and lamentations, misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing...
...Foremost of the Pear Orchard" was Mei Lan-fang of Peiping. Despite his titles, he was neither a monk nor a fruit-grower. Numerous Chinamen and Seattle dignitaries who met him at the boat welcomed him as China's greatest actor, come to introduce his art to the U. S. Mei Lan-fang and his company begin a U. S. tour in Manhattan...