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...Sierra; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer). A volcanic opera diva returns to Andalusia from Madrid at the request of her abandoned husband, who wants to tone up their daughter's wedding by the appearance of both the bride's parents. The diva arrives with a lot of theatrical riffraff, the daughter cools to her fiance, but the parents are happily reunited as the curtain falls. The diva is impersonated by Blanche Yurka, a seasoned actress who has of late years specialized in Ibsen. Greek tragedy and was one of the Narrators in Lucrece. The playwright is the author...
Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when...
Principal cockfighting centres in the U. S. are at Stevenson and Uniontown. Ala.; Biloxi, Miss.; Little Rock; New Orleans; Bartlesville, Okla.; El Paso; Highlandtown, near Baltimore; Memphis; Lexington; the Sierra Game Club in Grass Valley, Calif.; Bismarck, Mo.; Grand Rapids; Newark; Aiken, S. C., where North and South Carolina breeders have been holding interstate mains for two centuries. Because cockfighting, though firmly established and thoroughly organized, needs to be furtively conducted, there are no precise statistics on the sport. Cockers estimate that 1,000 mains are held in the U. S. every year, that wagers, purses and admission fees amount...
Northern Californians rubbed their eyes last week as Lake Tahoe turned orange. In Lassen National Park motorists cursed their overheated engines. Visitors to American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld a vast mottled cloud moving northwest. Natives of the Sierra Nevada foothills, remembering similar phenomena in 1926, 1919 and 1913, shrugged their shoulders and went back to work. They knew that these butterflies live off wild lilacs and other wild plants, do not harm domestic crops...
Wherever the two leaders were, revolution did not wait for them. From Pinar del Rio to Oriente violence broke out all over the island. There was skirmishing outside Santiago de Cuba (centre of U. S. action in the Spanish-American War, see map), at Artemisa, Sancti Spiritus, Sierra Morena. The Machado Government issued a slightly contradictory bulletin to say that the situation was well in hand but that fighting had broken out at 49 points...