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Back to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after nine years' absence, came some weeks ago 65-year-old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, sang in two performance s???both times as Erda, once in Rheingold, once in Siegfried. Critics praised her, the audiences rushed to the footlights afterward to give her an ovation, acclaimed her a "great old lady." Back, way back in his office, where all things are decided, Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza listened to her voice, still gloriously strong and true, listened to the applause, drew up a new contract, for next season. Last week Mrs. Charlotte Grief (daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don Quichotte | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jollycos | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...State Department's restriction may be questioned, but its legal authority is less assailable. A great deal of discretion rests with consuls in the granting of visas. A consul has a right to refuse a visa to anyone likely to come into conflict with the laws of the U. S???as, for example, a person who might advocate overthrow of the U. S. Government or the practice of polygamy. It is very dubius whether Count Karolyi, unmuzzled, would do such things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Karolyi Muzzled | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...Persons who buy both the International and the Cosmopolitan do so primarily for the fiction and illustrations and these are almost identical in the two magazines. Asked to distinguish a difference, few readers point out that the Cosmopolitan's are of slightly greater fame and salary than the International's???Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequelae | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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