Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp. Russian Diva Anna Lissetshaya will be Aida. National Broadcasting Co.'s Pasquale Rescigno will conduct. Later Samson et Dalila and Cavalleria Rusticana will be given. Then Im- presario Salmaggi will take his principals to Hartford, Providence, Chicago, Montreal ballparks, will present operas with the aid of local choruses, bands, dancers, animals...
Died. Vincenzo Cardinal Vannutelli, 93, since 1915 Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, thrice mentioned for the Papacy (at the conclaves which elected Pius X in 1903, Benedict XV in 1914, Pius XI in 1922); Papal legate to Eucharistic Congresses at London in 1908, at Montreal in 1910 (after which he toured the U. S., was the guest of President Taft); on many occasions a Papal representative, envoy, nuncio, or internuncio (among them: coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in 1881, at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee); great & good friend of the U. S. (said he: "America...
Most laymen working to help the deaf are themselves hard of hearing. They include Starling Winston Childs, Manhattan banker; Adolph Bloch, Manhattan corporation lawyer; Norman Fraser, Chicago, retired; Mr. Justice A. Rives Hall, Montreal; Judge Simon Bass, St. Louis; Mrs. James Flack Norris, Boston; Mrs. James Rudolph Garfield, Cleveland daughter-in-law of the late President, wife of the 1907-09 Secretary of Interior. Also a worker for deaf people, though not herself aurally inefficient, is Mrs. Calvin Coolidge...
Mystery. Fast trains travel the 350 mi. from Montreal to Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...
Learning that 250 Canadian authors would convene in Montreal this month, Author Rudyard Kipling, sailing from Montreal to England, expressed surprise that there were so many of them. Said he: "Wish them good luck for me. It's an awful trade. I mean...