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There began in London a campaign to raise $500,000 to establish a permanent opera company. Prime mover is Isadore D. Elara, a British composer who has been well received in Paris. The project takes the guise of the familiar "music for the masses," in that it plans a box office rate of $1 for the best seats. There are to be no highly paid stars, but a large company with full length seasons. The present Covent Garden yearly season lasts only six weeks...
...lawyer who would give anything he ever owned to help her, and, in fact, does give her any amount of good advice, which she cheerfully disregards-to her own partial undoing. Above all, there is the invaluable Hal Utrecht, Mrs. Larry Fay's counsel, who is the prime mover in the happy ending...
...Welsh prime donna, scores a hit with her four songs, one in Italian and three in English. She possesses an excellent soprane voice with considerable range to it, and receives much applause. Charles O'Donnell and Ethel Blair are uproariously funny in a comedy skit called "The Piano Mover"; the act is new and all their stunts are well-executed Gertrude Vanderbilt, "the only Vanderbilt on the stage" has a song and dance number that is as fresh as a sea breeze; with her catchy songs, jokes and personality she proves a great favorite. Others on the bill...
...Since the treaty and the Covenant for the League of Nations has been repudiated by the Senate, it is returned to President Wilson, and, as he is chief mover of the document, it is inconceivable that he will not resubmit it to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in whose hands the fate of the treaty really lies in the course of the next few months. However, before Wilson resubmits the pact, it is only logical that he announce a policy of compromise liberal enough to assure the measure some chance of success. But once in the hands of the committee...
After a lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek...