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...blown out, 24 of its 35 ancient statues wrecked, all its flying buttresses demolished or badly damaged. Altogether the damage amounted to 140,000,000 francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed millions of francs to the restoration of Reims were the late ex-Empress Eugénie of France and John D. Rockefeller Jr.. the latter giving 15,000,000 francs to rebuild the roof, install a 13-bell carillon...
...critic Henderson never minced matters. He called Marion Talley "A Chamber of Commerce soprano with a phonograph voice." He wrote of a soprano singing Iphigénie en Aulide that "she seemed a fit subject for the sacrifice." Because the Metropolitan put on too many Fausts in the 18905 he called it "Das Faustspielhaus...
Meanwhile sick Juan's healthy mother Queen Victoria Eugénie, who rushed to Manhattan when her eldest son Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, was nearly dying of hemophilia (TIME, Sept. 28), continued last week to prove that by firmly declining U. S. publicity it is perfectly easy to escape it. As a British Princess in her own right and a granddaughter of the late great Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Eugénie last week visited the British Embassy in Washington as the house guest of Lady Lindsay, avoided the notoriety of meeting "those people," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt...
...more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich tributes. In behalf of 200 friends, Mrs. Vincent Astor gave her a diamond brooch which once belonged to Empress Eugénie. For the Metropolitan Opera Guild Mrs. August Belmont presented a gold traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver vase; the orchestra, a plaque. Nothing seemed to please Bori more than when Manager Edward Johnson handed her a silver...
...anti-Fascist mob against the Italian Embassy in Warsaw last week shouting "Hurrah for Socialism! Hurrah for Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall again be free...