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New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1913, Page 19

Mr. John McCormack, the famous Irish tenor, sang in ' Rigoletto in the recent production at Covent Garden. Newspaper critics say it is doubtful whether 'a, better performance has 'ever been heard in' any operatic production in England. ; A replica of the Vatican is to be one of the features at the great Exposition in San Francisco. Its 'dome will be 183 : feet above the ground, and will be surmounted by a cross 20. feet high; At night the cross •will be illuminated, and will throw its light for many miles over the wafers of the Pacific.