Newest music of the month Gigli and others in Victor release
Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli offers Santa Lucia for September Victor Records. Frances Alda sings Farewell My Joyous Home from La Wally. Toscanini and La Scala Orchestra present Rakoczy March. Giuseppe De Luca delights with Don Carlos aria. The Day Supreme aria caps a melodic operatic day.
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Naples
Beniamino Gigli
Victor
Santa Lucia
Bay of Naples
Gigli
Frances Alda
Catalini
Toscanini
la Scala
Europe
Berlioz
Faust
Hungary
Don Carlos
Giuseppe de Luca
United States
Charming New Music for Dancers on Victor List
The September Victor catalog showcases Hackel Berge Orchestra waltzes In My Tippy Canoe and Where the Lazy Mississippi Flows with vocal by Arthur Fields. It features Benson Orchestra fox trots Na Jo and San, Paul Whiteman medley You're the Sweetest Girl, All Star Trio Vamping Rose, Pietro accordion numbers My Treasure Marsovia, and Billy Murray Stand Up and Sing for Your Father. Marine Band marches The Rifle Regiment and sacred pieces by Homer Rodeheaver and Mrs. William Asher, plus Chopin Polonaise on Cortot piano and McCormack Learn to Smile among diverse titles.
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Hackel- Berge
McKee’s Orchestra
Castle House
Arthur Fields
Paul Whiteman
All Star Trio
Pietro
Marsovia
Billy Murray
Victor
Michael McCoy
Aileen Stanley
Sweet
Loret
Dender
Charles Hart
Elliott Shaw
Peerless
Henry Burr
Kathleen
Annie Qear
United States Marine Band
Marine Corps State
America
Calvary
Homer A. Rodeheaver
Rodeheaver
William Asher
Walter C. Kelly
Kelly
Chopin
Franz Liszt
Alfred Cortot
John McCormack
McCormack
Sibella
Villanella
Lucrezia Bori
Fritz Kreisler
Drolla
Galli-Curci dazzles with coloratura aria from Sonnambula
Opera critic lauds Galli-Curci for a birdlike coloratura in the aria While My Heart Its Joy Revealing from Bellini Sonnambula. The review notes the voice reaches high E flat with exquisite care and praises her new Victor record for rich florid singing.
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Bellini
Victor
Galli-Curci
Liszt
Liebestraum
Olga Samaroff
Olive Kline
Elsie Baker
Sarasate
Heifetz
Town’s wisest residents highlighted in terse rumor
In a bare town chatter, residents point to a man famed for wit while others doubt their own memory and wonder who speaks the truth about who deserves wisdom in this quiet community.
End ENVOYS plea for help across Europe and Russia
Intercepted Soviet wire reports execution of rich peasants hiding grain in Naratos district and bandit depredations in Mariupol area. Soviet delegation plans abroad to England France Spain and the United States while Adolph Joffe leads to Switzerland Italy and others. American prisoners in Moscow and Petrograd to be moved across Russia per relief committee sources.
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Riga
Mariupol
Naratos
London
Russia
Exchange
Copenhagen
Bechterey
University of Petrograd
England
France
Spain
United States
Adolph Joffe
Switzerland
Italy
Czecho- Slovakia
Poland
M. Lunarcharsky
Education
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Moscow
Petrograd
Walter L. Brown
American Relief Administration
Leo Kameneff
Russian Relief Committee
Servants Cheap There Cooks Get From 20 Up in Argentina
Argentine housewives face a plentiful but inefficient servant labor pool. Cooks cost from $20 and up, with wages reflecting the abundant supply across Buenos Aires and the country.
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Argentina
South America
Buenos Aires
Town Mayor Charged With Operating Moonshine Still
San Antonio mayor George J. Frese was arrested on liquor law violations after Pasco County Sheriff Starkie alleged a moonshine still operated on the second floor of Frese’s residence at the town’s most prominent corner. He is held on bond awaiting trial.
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San Antonio
George J. Frese
Starkie
Pasco County
Frese
Mt Vernon Candy Plant Fire Causes $300,000 Loss
Mount Vernon Illinois reports the largest fire in years destroying the H. W. Faulkner candy manufacturing plant. The blaze caused an estimated $300,000 in damage to the city’s biggest building.
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Mt. Vernon
Mount Vernon
Ill
H. W. Faulkner
Wireless telephone covers speed boat races in Chicago
Chicago newspapers received results of speed boat races off the municipal pier by wireless telephones direct into a press association office. It marks the first use of a wireless link to cover a major news event.
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Chicago
Municipal Pier
Associated Press
Press Association
Delegates Sail to Lausanne Congress on Zeeland
American delegates for the international congress against alcoholism travel aboard the steamer Zeeland en route to Plymouth Cherbourg and Antwerp as part of a voyage toward Lausanne Switzerland.
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International Congress Against
New York
Lauzanne
Switzerland
Zeeland
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Antwerp
Legion seeks pardon in Gratt Cooper murder case
Montgomery Alabama members of the American Legion petition Gov Kilby and the board of pardons for commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment for Gratt Cooper an overseas black soldier convicted of murdering his wife and sister in law in Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Ala
American Legion
Kilby
Board of Pardons
Gratt Cooper
White House Recoats With Fresh Paint
The White House receives its yearly paint update. Officials say the building remains the whitest in the world and the fresh coat aims to preserve its iconic exterior.
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Washington
White House
Health officials clamp down on exposed food in city
Birmingham Alabama health officers raid markets and schools to enforce cleanliness in food displays. They target unsanitary conditions with inspection and dust removal as part of a state backed health effort.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mark Rest
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