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...five years of tension and overwork as Ambassador to China, was shifted to the Australian legation, and the Australian Minister, horse-faced Clarence Edward Gauss, transferred to Chungking. Another transfer brought Bert Fish, now Minister to Egypt, to Portugal, at the same rank; while swell-shirted Herbert Claiborne Pell, the Newport bolshevik, moved from the hot spot at Lisbon to one at Budapest, as Minister to Hungary. Edwin Carleton Wilson, at Uruguay and William Dawson, at Panama, changed jobs, both at Ambassadorial rank, and spare, smooth Alexander Comstock Kirk was promoted from Rome Embassy counselor to Minister to Egypt...
...white-haired, soft-faced, 78-year-old refugee in Manhattan, went to Philadelphia to hear an opera. As he entered the old Academy of Music, he said grimly: "I will sit through it to the end, no matter that I do not like it." The opera was Pelléas et Meélisande, music by Achille-Claude Debussy, drama by Maurice Maeterlinck. Although Pelléas was first performed nearly 40 years ago, its author had never sat through a production...
...Comique had other ideas: he chose a young singer from the U. S., Mary Garden. When Maeterlinck heard the news, he set off, cane in hand, to give Debussy a thrashing. He gave the composer no more than a fright, but wrote to Le Figaro wishing Pelléas et Meélisande "immediate and emphatic failure." It turned out to be a success, and Maeterlinck stayed away from it. In 1920, persuaded to attend a Mary Garden performance in Manhattan, he walked out in the second...
More persuasive was the Pelléas which Maeterlinck and his chic, 46-year-old wife (Renée Dahon, actress) witnessed last week. The young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company made Maeterlinck's dreamy medieval play completely believable, with Tenor John Toms and Soprano Frances Greer a handsome pair of lovers. As he had promised, Maeterlinck sat it through to the end. He had refused to promise to applaud...
...they went in churches and mosques, using them as makeshift forts. Neutral military observers said that if only Britain could send enough planes, the Italian Armies might be swept into the Adriatic before Rome could get set for a new offensive. Fascist reinforcements moving up to Pogradec met their pell-melling comrades on the road out of there, turned and fled with them as Pogradec fell. The same thing happened at Moskopole and it looked as though the first stand General Soddu could make would be on a line from Elbasan on the Shkumin River, which cuts Albania...