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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lucky 13. Under Mexican law the first five voters who appear at a polling booth on election morn are the legal guardians of that booth for the rest of the day. In Baltimore last week friends of General Manuel Pérez Trevino, President of the Grand Revolutionary Party, congratulated him on the fact that voters of his party were first at every single polling booth in Mexico City and at most throughout Mexico. The count gave President-Elect Ortiz Rubio 13 times as many votes as all other candidates combined. Only 19 people were killed in the entire republic...
...that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes his clothes, Chanel his perfume; that he is inevitably late save for engagements of one sort. When he is scheduled to appear in concert he is always meticulously prompt for he feels it a grave responsibility to be José Iturbi, Spain's greatest pianist...
Last fortnight Duncan Phillips published for the first time a magazine named Art and Understanding. It is hereafter to appear twice a year. Called "A Phillips Publication," and written for the most part by the publisher himself, its illustrations are from canvases in the Phillips Gallery. There are also reprinted articles by John Galsworthy and Virgil Barker. In the opening editorial Collector Phillips gives his credo: "There is nothing esoteric and beyond the comprehension of the average man in that incessant spiritual activity, almost as old as the human species, which we call art. . . . The machine age promises to provide...
Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest. Ivan Mestrovic was expected to appear in person at an exhibition of his recent sculptures. Then he cabled from Paris where he now has a studio; he could not come; next autumn he would bring sketches for two new doors for St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan...
When the Instrumental Clubs give their concert in New York, in the ballroom of the Hotel Plaza, New Years' afternoon, C. E. Henderson '28, a former member of the clubs who is now with Waring's Pennsylvanians, will appear as an added attraction...