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...Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...
After lunch, the King drove up the Champs Élysées, lined with thousands of people who cheered lustily and shouted Vive Georges Cinq, and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which lies under the Arc de Triomphe...
...Cuban was most feted. At Washington, he had lunched informally with President and Mrs. Coolidge and some 30 guests including Dr. Nicholas M. Butler, Mrs. Butler, Miss Butler. He had dined with Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. He had placed a wreath on Washington's tomb. To him the Cuban Ambassador had given a ball which nearly eclipsed the polo ball earlier in the week...
...part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
Although the "German at Doom" may have sent a wreath-and if he did, it probably was returned-yet, if he did not, it would seem that he lost a great opportunity to play an important political card...