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Last week it appeared that Widow Wagner found him. He was a bushy haired little Italian with a fierce mustache, conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony, the same Arturo Toscanini whose electric renditions of Tannhäuser and Tristan this summer brought acclaim as has been bestowed on no Bayreuth conductor since the War (TIME...
...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...
...enabling act," enables His Majesty's Government to enforce upon Britons ?a treaty signed by George V.* It is considered especially nice?a sort of beau geste toward His Majesty?if the enabling act passes its second and third (final) readings not by formal votes but by acclaim. To win this acclaim James Ramsay MacDonald and leading Labor orators sweated last week and swinked...
...Never Since Charles II!" What did it matter that "Winnie" is only No. 2 man in the Conservative Party? Or that No. i Man Stanley Baldwin had decided not to oppose passage of the Act by acclaim? Mr. Churchill is the grandson of a duke (Marlborough) with the fighting instincts of a Grand Mogul or a rat-hunting terrier. Singlehanded, while Conservative whips treated him to blackest looks, Well-dined "Winnie" flayed the Treaty, repeated thunderously his now famed anti-Treaty slogan...
...merely pawing the air. When his elation began to wear off he sat down sulkily, stalked a few minutes later from the House. Other debaters were merely perfunctory. In the nicest sort of British way, without a division, the Act passed second reading in the Commons by acclaim, next night was acclaimed through third reading, went to the House of Lords...