Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next scene Janet Evans arrives in a lobby next to Heaven and begins to read the histories of the lives which would have been bound up with hers if she had stayed on earth: a disheartened Kansas City playwright; a female derelict whose seducer has abandoned her in Montreal; a cardsharp and the banker's daughter he is scheming to marry; a young socialite condemned for murder; a Manhattan play-boy and his mistress. Only in Act II, when she comes to read the projection of her own life as she should have lived it. does her role...
...would have helped the playwright by appearing in his play. At a party after the opening night in Atlantic City, the brother of the Montreal derelict would have recognized in the cardsharp the villain responsible for his sister's disappearance. The playboy would have fallen in love with Janet Evans and this, by a roundabout chain of circumstances, would have saved the life of the convicted murderer. So carried away is Janet Evans by these glimpses into her discarded future that she is horrified when the Kansas City playwright, who would have been her husband, walks into Heaven...
...France, which guarantees to its peasants a price of $1.45 per bu. True to form, the peasants garnered more wheat than France could eat. What it could not eat, France was last week dumping for what it could get.* It was even willing to lay down wheat in Montreal, all expenses paid at a price below Winnipeg...
...more high powered ship this year. A modern three place biplane with a 165 horsepower motor is under consideration. This ship, combining a landing speed of 48 mph with a cruising speed of 115 mph, is ideal for club purpose. For the experienced Pilot, it will bring Philadelphia and Montreal within two and a half hour cruising range, while New York will be less than two hours away. Its low landing speed will make it a safe ship for student pilots...
Peeking through the windows of the chapter house of Montreal's Anglican Cathedral one day last week, newshawks discerned purple episcopal robes flashing dimly. Within the shadowy Cathedral which was locked, barred and bolted, little knots of laymen and churchmen gathered whispering. No speeches were permitted in the election they were holding to fill the primacy of the Church of England in Canada. This lordship of 1,232,000 Anglicans had been vacant since the death last summer of Most Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell, Archbishop of Nova Scotia. Once held according to seniority, the Primacy became elective under...