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...True, they were 28 hr. ahead of their "round-the-world-in-ten-days" schedule; true, too, that they had but eight hours sleep since leaving New York. But some of their most arduous traveling lay ahead of them over the unbroken forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome to Edmonton, Canada, and then they might need time to spare. ... In a little more than two hours they were off again, with a wave of the hand, into that part of the East where miles are longest and life is scarcest...
Rigoletto, Caro nome and Tutte le feste by Soprano Lily Pons (Victor, $2)?The singer who within the past fortnight has stormed Cleveland and Cincinnati. The first aria is the one which did the trick in Cleveland...
...greater triumph was to come in Rigoletto a few nights later. The boxes were filled with fashionable Wednesday-nighters, the house tensely expectant. Soon came the Caro nome aria and Lily Pons stopped the show. Applause lasted ten minutes by the clock. After the second act she had ten curtain calls. After the final curtain 500 yelling enthusiasts stayed 35 minutes, recalled her in all some 30 times. As in Lucia it was her singing not her acting which offered the emotional thrill...
...been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last flight, a 500-mile air funeral over subArctic wastes to Nome, Alaska...
...taking their place, so the government sanctions dog-team races for another reason? because it is great sport and attracts visitors. The course was 90 miles long, and the teams covered it in three days, 30 miles a day. Leonard Seppala, the man who took the serum to Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925) was in it, but Emile St. Goddard of The Pas, Manitoba, finished in 1 hr. 2 min. winning the $1,000 prize for Ottawa's first dog derby. All week there were parades by snowshoe clubs, dances on the ice in fancy dress, tobogganing, ski-jumping, skating...