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...This year, from an astrological standpoint, she should receive the highest acclaim as a real prodigy. Many great musicians have been born in January, among them Mozart. . . . Ruth has two planets in the same degree as he. Schubert was born in January, and Ruth also has degrees in common with his. . . . She has planets in the same degree as Beethoven, and within ten years her Jupiter will have progressed to the same degree as his when he wrote his Eroica. . . . She will be high-strung and temperamental...
...Jumped to the conclusion that Great Britain may soon recognize Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo when London's Conservative Press received with acclaim last week a" rabidly pro-Manchukuo report of 12,000 words turned in by the British trade mission to Manchukuo under Wool Tycoon Lord Barnby. Reputedly the Barnby commissioners bagged $40,000,000 worth of Japanese orders for steel alone. Cried the Tory Morning Post: "Manchukuo is a permanent fact to which the world must accommodate itself, whether it likes it or not. No useful purpose is to be served by preserving the diplomatic...
...everyone's surprise the 72-year-old Foreign Minister turned out to be more active than almost any of his predecessors. He was the first French Cabinet Minister ever to visit Poland. To do him honor Dictator Pilsudski last April canceled a pleasure trip to Egypt. Amid tremendous acclaim he was feted by Czechoslovakia at Prague, exchanged literary reminiscences with President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. But for Louis Barthou the most fun was his Balkan tour...
...long illness; in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Of rich, noble birth, she plotted revolution against the Tsar, lived and worked with Russian peasants, was exiled to Siberia in 1878. In 1917, Kerensky, who was at her death bed last week, ordered her back to Russia where she was received with tumultuous acclaim. When the Kerensky regime collapsed, she was again exiled from Russia...
DUSK AT THE GROVE?Samuel Rogers ?Little, Brown ($2.50). Books that win fat prizes generally get a big circulation, but not always the acclaim of critics. There should be little complaint, however, with the judges who picked Dusk at The Grove for this year's $10,000 Atlantic Prize Contest. The still waters of this quiet novel run deep. Author Rogers deals sparingly with what his people do, more with what they say, most with what they think. Ranging from 1909 to 1931 in a series of episodes, the story takes for its theme family loyalty in a changing...