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THE CHINA MAIL.
THOR DAY JULY 20, 1983
Charles K.Hackett and Mlle. Elvi
lalgo
Charles K. Hackett, the noted tenor, scored a great triumph in the opera "Rigoletto" given in Paris. Cheers and applause greeted him, and the press was unanimous in calling him one of the foremost artists of the day. Mile. Elvira de Hidalgo, youngest woman opera star, was accorded an ovation when she appeared with Hackett. She is now bul 22 and made her debut at the age of 17.
Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Kissel...
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Mrs. Mary O'Connell Kissel, 21, a bride of a few hours, collapsed whi e responding to a toast propos d by a guest at the wedding feast. Her nushand, Conrad Kissel, alsullapsed when he strove to Bft her from the flour. One by one to geists began to writhe in pain, and they, too, fell to the floor. Physicine attended the bride and groom and thirty-two of their guests and said that tained chicken saled had! poisoned them. All subsequently recovered...
Jesse Carson Mi
Governor Banter
Governor Percival P. Baxter, of he ordered the American flag over Maine. "started something" when the Capitol, at Portland, towered
Admiral E. W. Eberle, who will become ranking Admiral of the United States Navy in July, has stated publicly that unless Con-
Was Mrs. Claro Phillips, "ham- nier murderess," kidnapped from her cell in the Los Angeles jail, as she has asserted following her re tum from Honduras? She has ac- cused Jesse Carson, convict, of forcing her to fle with him after cutting the bars of her cell, but all his advances were repelled, the "tiger-woman" told the authorities. been a lover of animals and has gated France's naval forces to Carson was recaptured by the po-Sponsored legislation for their pro- comparative obscurity in maritime lice of Honduras, and is again in he classed "Garry" as a member of affairs threatens our Navy, he
his family,
Sress does its full duty the United to halfinast when his frish setter, States Navy will fall to the status "Garry died. State and local of a third-class naval power. The tacked the Executive for his action. same fate as that which has rele- Governor Baxter, who has always!
jail.
patriotic organizations have at-
tection, has stated in defence that
: declared.
Almost unbelievable is the story of the rise to success of Mrs. Mary Ranty Schwab. Once a tiny, rugged newsgirl, helpia a large family to eke out an uncertain livlag, she bus progressed to the position of Assistant City Attorney in the Coast mu úicipality. All during the years she laboured-is a news girì, sales-giri, factory-hund | and stenographor-she studied, educating herself fially to the point at which she won admittance to the bar. Her success since then has occasioned admiring comment.
Adolph Joffe.
Baron Gato.
A new triple alliance of Russia, Japan and Germany is regarded by shrewd political observers us a possible outcome of a preliminary official conference to which the Japanese Government will invite Com missar Adolph Joffe, who was head of the Russian delegation to the Russian-Polish peace conference at Riga and who is Foreign Pleni- potentiary of the Russian Soviet Government Japanese leaders, it is said, are building politically for the future in their negotiations with Russia and Germany. The decision of the Japanese Cabinet to confer with Joffe is regarded as a victory for Baron Shimpei Goto, former Mayor of Tokio, who resigned that office in order to urge an economic conference and agreement with the Soviet.
Advertising men and women-in New York, from all corners of the earth, left by aero-marine plane to attend the international convention of the association at Atlantic City. The "go-getters" enjoyed their trip which was made without mishap. In the photograph aré (left to right) Ralph Bremsen, E. W. Branisen, C, G. Ferguson, Lew Holland, President of the Advertising Club of the World; Miss Suzanne, Brenisen, Maxwell Lakenew, John Ferris, George H. Dunkle, W. G. Johnson and Ernest Eberhard.
Miss Gloria Gould, one of the greatest heiresses in America, has chosen as her life-partner Heary A. Bishop, Jr., of Bridgeport. Their
engagement was recently announced at a ball given in her honour. Miss Gould not only is one of the must papular members of the younger set, but bas acquired an enviable reputation also as a dancer in amateur theatricals. Mr. Bishop is the son of Henry A. Bishop.
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