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Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...
...There have been more recent performances. The Chicago Opera Company sant it in Manhattan in 1921. At that time Norma was vocally beyond Soprano Rosa Ralsa...
...inimitable, irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
Their plan was simple, shrewd. At noontime, while Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was lunching, a young Royalist entered a telephone booth in the Ministry of Interior. He called the Prison Santé, asked for its Director, M. Catry, and mimicking the voice of an assistant of Minister Sarraut, ordered that M. Léon Daudet and two other prisoners should be instantly released from jail...
Premier Raymond Poincaré hastily convened the Cabinet which promptly suspended Director Catry of the Prison Sant...