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Divorced. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hirsute & dynamic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, famed Metropolitan soprano, on the ground of incompatibility, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. "We are the best of friends," stated Soprano Alda, "and I shall continue happily at the Metropolitan under his direction...
...project is attractive: 100,000 U. S. churches and other religious institutions are probable customers. Ministers and laymen have been buying stock in the Religious Film Trust. Last week the Trust had thus enough funds to warrant a contract with the Acoustics Products Co., affiliation of the Sonora Phonograph...
...Deutsch, president of both the Sonora and Acoustics Products companies and promoter of Religious Film Trust, last week promised: "With the exception of the leading characters, native hordes and tribes will be employed and will wear their native garb, which has undergone no change in thousands of years." He was in error. Although Arabians still wear no underwear under their burnooses, they now wear socks and Boston garters...
Alvaro Obregon, born in the remote hamlet of Huatabampo, Sonora, 850 miles northwest of Mexico City, was solemnly returned thither, last week, to seek honest, humble rest. Over his grave will rise no ornate tombstone but at the head will rest a Crown of Clay, baked hard as porcelain. By this traditional symbol, the Republic of Mexico, which cannot crown a living hero, is accustomed to pay royal homage to the Heroic Dead...
...following day General Alfonso de la Huerta, brother of General Adolfo de la Huerta, was captured, tried and shot. "Here is another rebel general," read the placard that was affixed to his body as it was exhibited publicly in Nogales, Sonora...