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...descended from his luxurious retreat at Gardone to Milan, there to witness the Italian premiere of his highly sacrilegious opera, The Martyrdom of San Sebastian. The opera was explicitly barred to Catholics by the authorities at Rome after its French premiere in 1911. What of that? D'Annunzio donned the uniform of a General of the Air Service, caused his valet to obscure his chest with medals, and strode to the performance. With complete assurance he had caused it to be presented at La Scala, the leading theatre in Italy, with a seating capacity of 3,600. Despite...
...Manhattan, Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska proved last week that there was more than one Bach worthy of mention. On the occasion of her appearance as soloist with the Flonzaley Quartet she played, for the first time in the U. S., Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's* (son of the great Johann Sebastian) Concerto in G Minor for Harpsichord and String Quartet, scored by herself from the manuscript parts found in the sale of Prieger's collection at Bonn...
...Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup. The order was delayed. When the tureen at last appeared, Sebastian, tired of waiting, snatched it and "drained half its contents at a gulp." Then his eyes bulged, his face contorted. Nearly choking, he spat out a live turtle the size of a bright new peseta...
...Hays 10,234 Howard Heintz 191,374 Myron T. Herreck 6,929 John Hertz (Yellow Taxi) 8,316 Mrs. John Hertz 5,215 Alanson B. Houghton 32,404 Charles E. Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden 14,736 A. Lawrence Lowell (Harvard).... 36,566 Cyrus H. McCormick 269,036 Ganna Walska McCormick 12,632 Harold F. McCormick 168,276 John J. McGraw 2,544 Clarence H. Mackey 320,490 Edward...
Kresge, daughter of Sebastian S. Kresge, 5-and-10?-store man, to one Erskine Gwynne of Paris and Washington...