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...Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa Palatino she died at the age of 65, cut off her unappreciative children without a single monkey, left the lot to be established by President Machado as an endowed and public Cuban monkeyhouse. "It was largely her pioneer work," said Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological...
...Therefore is it that I venture to offer to the Italian people all that remains to me and all that from this date I may acquire to increase my inheritance. I, who once sang idly of ancient palaces and sumptuous villas; I have come to close my life in science in this peasant's house, not so much to humble myself as to test my own powers of creation and transfiguration...
...familiar, preferably short, something which will not demand such concentration that the audience cannot look around at itself and make merry between curtains, Chicago's first night had a satisfactory brilliance this week. The acoustics were somewhat improved, and Samuel Insulls new rose & gold auditorium was a sumptuous background for Swifts, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fields, Drakes, Dicks and their neighbors. But the fantastic steel curtain (medley of trumpeters, poultry and a naked girl) went up on an opera never before heard in the U. S.: Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, based on the play of Alfred de Musset, with Baritone...
...phrase has so inflamed the imaginations of mankind, from Babylon to the Abyssinia of Rasselas as "sunken gardens", which even in America are found on only a few of the most magnificent and sumptuous estates...
...famed Montagues and Capulets. Today the Chambruns and the Dampierres of France regard each other with proud, polite disfavor?much as a prize Angora stares at a haughty Pekingese. Last week the French government sent to the U. S. on the maiden voyage of the French line's sumptuous new cabin class liner Lafayette an "official mission," consisting of the Marquis Jacques de Dampierre, the marquise, their son Count Henri de Dampierre and his countess. These personages the government officially called "descendants" of the great French hero of the American Revolution: General the Marquis Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert...