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...Salome" is an extremely orchestral opera, with a great deal of writing for brass and woodwinds. It was a treat to hear the Met Orchestra, which at times finds no difficulty in muffling simple oom-pah-pah accompaniments, perform such a difficult score so well...
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger. "This man," wrote Yeats later, "I had deemed a drunken, vainglorious lout." And soon after the birth of their son, Maud and Major MacBride were separated. After the Easter Rising in 1916, the major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts...
...Thus when the sun is directly overhead at Greenwich, G.C.T. and local time are both 12 o'clock noon. At the same instant it is 7 a.m. local time-Eastern Standard-in New York, but the chronometer of a ship in the harbor will read - with corrections - 12h oom oos G.C.T., though the sun may be only just rising. The Court's suggestion: substitute the 24 letters of the Latin Alphabet for the 24 G.C.T. hours. Then at a quarter past R in San Francisco, it would also be a quarter past R in Chungking...
Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan...
...With a friend she went to see "Doctor" Pierre A. Bernard, formerly Oom the Omnipotent, at his handsome Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, N.Y. He is an ex-barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...