Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago a chesty little Italian stood on the platform in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, proudly watching a train pull out for Montreal. Aboard it was his San Carlo Opera Company, starting on its 26th consecutive season, solidly booked for 35 weeks. Chesty little Fortune Gallo has long challenged anyone who says that opera cannot pay. San Carlo's record last week again proved him right. The Company played in Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto.* During the week 25,000 persons crowded to hear Fortune Gallo's troupers...
After working on newspapers in St. Louis, Chicago, and Montreal, John B. Kennedy became an associate editor of Collier's magazine. He specialized in writing breezy interviews with stage and screen celebrities. Kennedy was a man of the world and he knew bow to keep out too much breathless adoration of the great...
Founder Fairbridge had planned other schools?in Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Rhodesia. To start a Canadian school on Vancouver Island, the Prince of Wales last year donated £1,000 and other sponsors swelled the fund to £70,000. Last week in Montreal landed the first batch of Canadian Fairbridgians, 27 boys, 14 girls, averaging ten years of age. Most of them came from around Newcastle. Solicitous Canadians found them a spruce and keen-eyed but impish lot who raced up & down the deck of their steamer, yelling, pulling one another's hair, tormenting their three chaperones...
Perkins Hall--Theodore F. M. Newton of Montreal, Quebec; Instructor in English and Tutor...
...Nelson to a 5-mi. race for a $25,000 side bet. So far no one has bothered to accept. He uses a strange 76-to-the-minute stroke which causes him to be called "the Italian windmill." Thick and loquacious, Swimmer Gambi celebrated his victory by going to Montreal for another marathon swim this week. Then he plans a trip to Kentucky to buy more trotters before he goes home to accept his commission as an infantry lieutenant...