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...upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means of Sanctions and then civilizing Ethiopia in a community spirit...
Flagstad was 36 when she ventured beyond the Scandinavian boundaries to Bayreuth, sang small roles the first summer, Sieglinde the next. On the strength of her Bayreuth appearances, Gatti-Casazza and Conductor Artur Bodanzky asked her to come to St. Moritz and sing for them there. The room was small, her voice muffled by heavy hangings. But a new Wagnerian was badly needed and she was given a contract. When Conductor Bodanzky queried her about her acting, she answered modestly: "I don't do very much...
Besides touching all the Scandinavian countries, the tentative itinerary of the voyage will include visits to Russia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France. Short cruises will be made up the principal fjords in the "land of the midnight sun," and in Russia there will be an extensive tour of the city of Leningrad and a three-day side trip to Moscow. Four days will be devoted to Paris, including excursions to Versailles and Fontainbleau...
...acceptable not only to U. S. youngsters but also to older folk who regard horse operas as topnotch entertainment. Second only to the works of Zane Grey, the Hopalong Cassidy series have sold 1,500,000 copies in the U. S., have been translated into German, Polish, Spanish, the Scandinavian. Clarence Edward Mulford published his first Western in 1907 when he was a city clerk in Borough Hall. Brooklyn. Seventeen years later he took his first trip West, to have a look at the locale he had been writing about. When, about six years ago, his royalties became sizable, Author...
...metre boats are to sailing what smorgasbord is to the dinner table: a Scandinavian specialty. Marconi-rigged, almost twice the size of a Star boat and a quarter that of an America's Cup yacht, they cost about $10,000 each. Almost every Norwegian fiord contains a fleet of them. In the U. S., they made their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series...