Met Opera Marks 75th Anniversary With Tosca Return
The Metropolitan Opera opened its 1955 59 season with Tosca in the old Broadway house, a gala night rich in tradition and star power. Del Monaco Tebaldi and London headlined as diplomats and fashionably dressed patrons filled the hall, raising a record $86,687.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
Broadway Opera House
The
Met
Puccini
Tosca
Farrar
Caruso
Scotti
Jeritza
Martinelli
Tebaldi
del Monaco
London
Broadway
Paris
Associated Press
W. G. Rogers
Theodore Roosevelt 100th Birthday Zestful Portrait
The piece portrays Theodore Roosevelt as a man of boundless energy on the 100th anniversary of his birth. It cites mixed contemporary views, including Mark Hanna calling him a “damned cowboy” and William McKinley noting Roosevelt as his vice presidential running mate, highlighting the roiling, robust character Roosevelts era celebrated.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy
Mark Hanna
William Ke
Kinley
Roosevelt
Clinton Rossiter
Coal Peddler Alf Riggs Dirtier Than Chimney Sweep
London resident Alf Riggs peddles coal in 112 pound sacks at 10 shillings a bag, delivering in a truck and wearing a rugged outfit. He jokes that coal dust sticks to him and his customers in home depots like bathtubs and dog kennels, while contrasting himself with chimney sweeps. The piece blends Alf’s gag with quotes about Roosevelt and Wilson from various figures.
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London
Alf Riggs
Alf
Britain
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
McKinley
St. Paul
St. Vitus
John Morley
Roosevelt
Steel Output Sets Another 1958 High
New York AP Steel production rose to 2,026,000 tons last week, 75.1 percent of capacity, marking a fifth straight weekly record. Mills will run at 74.4 percent capacity this week, yielding about 2,009,000 tons as output is forecast to ease.
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New York
American Tron and Steel Institute
Rail Firm Proposes A Stock Dividend
Northern Pacific Railway Co asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to declare a 20 percent capital stock dividend. The proposal would issue 998,065 shares of $5 par value stock, distributed as one dividend share for every five shares held.
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Washington
Northern Pacific Railway Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chiang Kai-shek cancels birthday celebration in austerity appeal
President Chiang Kai-shek requests that people in China and abroad not celebrate his 72nd birthday on October 31. He urges austerity and contributions to national salvation instead of the usual Nationalist festivity.
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Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Mother and three children die in car truck crash
In Pocatello Idaho a mother Martha Pendlebury 23 and her children Cynthia Lynn 4 David James 2 Stephen Glen 6 months died when their small foreign car collided with a truck after being forced off the road by a passing vehicle. The truck driver Theron Brown 35 said the auto burst into flames and could not be reached.
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Pocatello, Idaho
Theron Brown
Richland Center
Wis
Henry Parker
Martha Pendlebury
Cynthia Lynn
David James
Stephen Glen
Parker
Blackfoot
Idaho
Kenosha
Auto Transport Co
Brown
Glen
Argentina Signs Credit Deal for Russian Oil Machinery
London AP reports the Soviet Union and Argentina signed an agreement for Russian deliveries of machinery for Argentina's oil industry on credit. Moscow radio did not disclose details of the pact.
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London
Soviet Union
Argentina
Moscow Radio
Anchorage boom center fuels jobs as building expands
Anchorage with 94000 residents leads Alaska’s boom with construction as chief employment. Advertisers are urged to sell unused useful articles through Tribune Classified Ads and call 2-8040 to start an ad.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Tribune
New Nations Ready For Development Funds
World Bank observer J B M Cargill says newly independent South and Southeast Asian nations are ready to absorb more development funds. Political stability varies with Pakistan Burma Thailand Indonesia troubled by Sumatra rebellion. IMF and World Bank plan higher lending capacity next year.
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South
Southeast Asia
World Bank
J.B.M. Cargill
Pakistan
Burma
Thailand
Indonesia
Sumatra
Celebese Islands
Cargill
International Monetary Fund
New Delhi
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Rudolf Bing
Anthony Bliss
Lorraine Manville
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