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...found a second wife for himself, pretty, 21-year-old Janet ("Jansy") Lewis, a student at the Eastman School of Music. (His engagement to his good friend, Mrs. Christian Holmes of Fleischmann's Yeast wealth, had previously been rumored and denied.) Goossens' hobbies are Shakespeare and shark fishing. His best known composition: the opera Judith done to the libretto of the late Arnold Bennett (TIME, July 8, 1929). Goossens' appearance in Cincinnati last week was just an introduction. Next autumn he will be the Cincinnati Symphony's regular conductor, succeeding Hungarian Fritz Reiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Festival | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...delicacies as East Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups, including those made from shark fins and kangaroo tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fortnum & Mason Abroad | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Watson's Bay, Australia, one Charles Messenger caught a shark, slit its belly, found a lady's hand bag containing a wrist watch. Inscription on the wrist watch: "Yours till death. Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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