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...second Broadway appearance (her first was in last autumn's flop, The Romantic Mr. Dickens), sultry, handsome Diana Barrymore, daughter of The Profile and his second wife, Poetess Michael Strange, gives unmistakable signs of dramatic breeding, if not of dramatic royalty...
...Last autumn it was the Falangists going into the big jobs, the military going out (TIME, Oct. 28). This trend was reversed last week when Caudillo Francisco Franco appointed Colonel Valentin Galarza Morante Minister of Government. The nearest thing to a confidant that General Franco has, Galarza will be in charge of local and provincial governments, propaganda, health, relief, national reconstruction, the national police. Since Boss Franco's brother-in-law and the Falangists' boss, Ramon Serrano Suner, gave up this portfolio last autumn to concentrate on the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Government has been...
...called it a barefaced bribe, said it smelled of totalitarianism. Laborites called it a disguised wage cut. Sir John Simon, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the patriotic motive was enough to make people save. But time proved him wrong. The Exchequer has partially adopted compulsory savings. Next autumn automatic wage deferments (on a complex sliding scale) will begin in Britain...
...small house in Buenos Aires' Calle Juncal last week a bustling blonde housekeeper dusted provincial furniture, straightened somber religious pictures, made an old-fashioned brass bed. Icy rains had brought autumn to Argentina, and the master of the house in the Calle Juncal, Ramon S. Castillo, was moving in from his suburban quinta in Martinez beside the Rio de la Plata. In the domed Palacio del Congreso, Acting President Castillo's political housekeepers were similarly occupied. They swept out the debris of one of the most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready...
Conductor Klemperer, able musician but a Jew, was ousted from the Berlin State Opera in 1933, became leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Two autumns ago he was given a leave of absence after undergoing a brain tumor operation, which left him partly paralyzed and shambling-gaited. Last autumn he resigned. Soon he found another orchestra over which to wave his enormous, expressive hands: the New York City Symphony (WPA). He quit this job in January, after a row over whether to play Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in its original 15-instrument version (as he wished), or with...