Opera League Sees Opera as Culture Spur
The Opera Clubs promote opera as the most efficient vehicle for spreading musical culture. Increased leisure hours demand more suitable amusements for social welfare. Music and drama in opera can stir the whole person and provide culture and pleasure. The League headquarters will be the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Active members include local clubs and league officers. associate and sustaining memberships exist for individuals and organizations.
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Tan Opera Clubs
League
Metropolitan Opera
New York City
Hammerstein scoffs at Carlsbad opera expansion plan
Oscar Hammerstein rejects Gatti-Cazazza Dippel and Kahn scheme to spread grand opera via US tours and university extension. He cites American choruses, a New York school on Thirty fourth Street, and a 500 native applicants next month. He warns true grand opera requires rehearsals, large orchestras, and top conductors.
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Oscar Hammerstein
Manhattan Opera House
Carlsbad
Messrs
Gatti-Cazazza
Dippel
Kahn
Philadelphia
Inin Grand Opera
New York
Kankakee
National Heratic League Proposed to Foster Opera in U S
Boston officials and musicians endorse a proposed National Heratic League to promote grand opera and elevate American musical taste. Henry F Converse Arthur Foote and Arthur Farwell praise the plan as vital for musical development and cultural awakening.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Henry F. Converse
Boston Opera Company
Arthur Foote
Arthur Farwell
American Music Society
Ben
Europe
Behrens Favors Plan To Expand Metropolitan Opera Work
Sigfried Behrens, local representative of the Metropolitan Opera Company in Philadelphia, endorses expanding grand opera work. He supports local talent first and says managers plan could promote grand opera with help from local clubs and professionals. Local groups could benefit from operatic guidance and books.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Sigfried Behrens
Metropolitan Opera Company
Metropolitan Opera
Gatti-Casaza
Dippel
Kahn
Factory Falls Buries 100 Workers in Szegedin
A hurricane struck Szegedin Hungary this afternoon causing a factory to collapse. Four dead and four severely injured were recovered while seventy are missing. Szegedin, 96 miles southeast of Budapest, is a major city known for food product manufacture.
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Szegedin
Hungary
Budapest
Catholic Propaganda Plans Aim to Convert English Speakers
Rome reports Father A P Doyle at the Catholic University Mission House predicts in ten years 200000000 English speaking people may join the Roman Catholic Church if funded. Cardinal Merry del Val praises mission centers and non controversial zeal while Pope Pius XII urged Cardinal Gibbons to attend a papal function. Elkins and Abruzzi marriage not mentioned as public topic.
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Vatican
Mission House
United States
America
Bourne
Westminster
Herbert Vaughan
England
Father Doyle
Cardinal Merry del Val
Sacred College
Mgr
Merry del Val
St. Maria's
Pius
Cardinal Gibbons
Sistine Chapel
Rome
Giornale d'Italia
Katherine Elkins
Gibbons Sees the Pope in Rome Audience
Cardinal Gibbons met with the Pope who discussed a Washington mission movement aiming to convert America to Catholicism. The Pope viewed the effort as a Holy See emanation surpassing England's Oxford movement and praised Taft on church matters in the Philippines and Cuba.
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NEW York Times
Rome
Cardinal Gibbons
Mission House
Washington
America
Holy See
Vatican
Oxford
England
Taft
Philippines
Cuba
St. Maria In
Travestore
Mgr. O’connell
O'Connell
Presentation
Priests Visit Italy by Rail After Rejected Auto Plan
Cardinal Gibbons’s secretary Father Louis O’Donnovan and Father Thomas S. Lee with Capt. Dillups and Dr. Grindall of Baltimore tour Italy after meeting the Pope. They traveled by train to Orvieto Assisi Perugia and other sites noting rail travel as practical and cheaper.
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Dillups
Dr. Grindall
Baltimore
Italy
Cardinal Gibbons
Orvieto
Assisi
Perugia
Stern pays $90 after car crash near Austrian frontier
Louis Stern of New York, traveling from Carlsbad to Oberhofen on Lake, aided by his valet and chauffeur after a two horse wagon driver panicked and caused a crash near Lucerne. Police sided with the local driver and demanded a $90 on the spot, which Stern paid to avoid trouble. A native motorist then faced no such pressure.
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Oberhofen-on-Lake
Lke
Stern
Mr. Stern
Ricochet hydroplane wow at Cowes Regatta
The Ricochet hydroplane designed by Claude Lelas wowed spectators at the Cowes Regatta with speeds over 40 kmh. The craft resembles a punt with dual stern rudders and two overlapping plane surfaces separated by a perpendicular board. It jumps across waves on a screw-driven mechanism mimicking a skipping flat stone.
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Claude Lelas
Butterflies Shut Down Machinery Across Europe
English naturalists report widespread insect swarms this year with Paris, Florence, and Bohemia observing butterflies and moths. Locusts have appeared in Algeria causing crop damage while Bohemian cabbage fields show snowlike butterfly eggs on leaves. In Helsnitz butterflies clogged an embroidery factory, halting work.
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NEW York Times
London
Florence
Italy
New York
France
England
Algeria
Bohemia
Helsnitz
Americans in Paris fed by Mouriez chain of eateries
Paris reports a restaurant chain under M. Mouriez linking Café de Paris Armenonville and others, aimed at American patrons. He plans further acquisitions including du Pré Catelan and Abbaye Theleme, drawing Americans with high prices and exclusive settings while Parisian prices rise and debates grow on boycotting such establishments.
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Café de Paris
Avenue de l’Opéra
d’Armenonville
Bois de Boulogne
M. Mouriez
Paris
Hotel Foyot
Latin Quarter
Luxembourg Palace
Mouriez
Seine
Armenonville
du Helder
Nice
Hotel de Paris
Trouville
Helder
Montmartre
Rue Royale
Madeleine
Pré Catelan
Restaurant du Pré Catelan
M. Harduan
le Matin
Arion Choral Society sails home from Germany
The Arion Choral Society of Brooklyn completes a German tour and sails back to port aboard the steamer Bremen this morning. The voyage wraps up after a period of performances for local audiences abroad.
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Bremen
Arion Choral Society of
Brooklyn
Germany
Social Paris Grows Dull as Summer Ends
Paris society notes reflect waning crowds in top hotels as départures rise. Travelers and prominent Americans depart for Berlin London Hamburg or the Atlantic coast towns while weddings and social moves unfold in the Rue de Berry and major hotels.
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Paris
Americans in Lucerne Jest at Honeymooning Star Anna Held
Lucerne reports show a rising American presence. Anna Held and Florence Ziegfeld Jr attended a Schweizerhof ball amid lavish jewels and cream crepe gowns. Guests included Major Webster Bishop Jagger and the Williams rector. Additional visitors from New York and New Jersey joined dinners and tours as guests motor through Switzerland.
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Major
Frank Webster
Jagger
Europe
Nice
Adamson
J. E. Johnson
M. C. Fry
New York
H. W. Williams
Lucerne
Baroness de Beaulieu
Anna Held
Florence Ziegfeld, Jr
Schweizerhof
Paris Revues Keep Decency Gullible in Style
Paris reporters note court fines on nude exhibitions changed nothing in revues as managers shift to more suggestive déshabille. The costuming at venues like La Cigale and Le Moulin Rouge reaches Directoire style pacha levels beyond other cities.
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NEW York Times
Paris
la Cigale
Americans Desert London for Country Visits and Church Leaders
London hosts a thawing exile of American society as Bishop Greer returns to the United States aboard the Lusi- tania with other bishops and guests. Notables including Mrs. Vanderbilt and various Yal e and Gilded Age families travel through Claridge’s and the Ritz while Lambeth Conference wraps up.
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J. A. Burton
Ritz
Major
Edward Hoffer
Carlton
Paris
Leonard Town
United States
Edsall
Minnesota
Palmer Hasland
Ethel Edsall
Ireland
Scotland
Lawrence
Massachusetts
London
Missouri
Utah
H.S. Houston
Philadelphia
Hyde Park
New York
William McAdoo
Harriet McAdoo
Walter Brook
Celtic
E. H. Ferry
Harriet Ferry
Boston
F. G. Potter
Continent
London grafters punished in Mile-End graft trial
London voters heard of a ten-offender Mile-End graft verdict after a twenty day trial. Ten guardians of the district were found guilty of taking subsidies from a contractor who aided them to fleece ratepayers. Many were respected men including an alderman and former Stepney mayor. Hefty fines and prison terms followed.
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London
Stepney
Westham
Tired of Baghdad Railroad Grows as International Control Favored
Berlin reports influential circles tire of the Baghdad Railroad affair weighing on Germany. Government circles consider placing the project under international control with England and France. Stemrich, longtime Constantinople consul, supports this trend amid Turkish reforms and Armenian emigration from America. German papers accuse American missionary schools of fomenting Ottoman discontent.
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Bagdad
America
Young Turk Committee
Paris
American Roberts College
Bosporus
Berlin
Turkey
Abdul Hamid
Hill Lecture a Great Success at Historians Congress
Berlin reports Ambassador Hill’s opening lecture drew hearty congratulations at the Historians Congress. He will host American colleagues at a later dinner with Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein and his son Adolph in attendance. New arrivals include Jesse Benedict Carter who will lecture August 10 on Romulus or Remus.
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New York Times
Berlin
Ambassador Hill
The
Historians’ Congress
Hill
Augie
Prince Christian
Schleswig-Holstein
Adolph
Germany
Jesse Benedict Carter
of Classical Studies
Rome
Romulus
Remus
Congress
Jupiter’ S
R. S. Reynolds Hitt
Orr
Veloz de Goilicon
Legation
Washington
New York
J. B. Regan
Knickerbocker
R. M. Haan
St. Regis
Mr. Haan
St. Reels
Metropolis
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Hamburg
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Chicago
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Leicester
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Sumner
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Idaho
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Savoy
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Claridge
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Grosvenor
R. M. Gillespie
Piccadilly
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E. E. Davis
O. F. Lason
Charles S. Whiting
Emelyn Newbold
Hugh A. Inman
Potter Palmer
G. W. Carter
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Minnehaha
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