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Accordingly Yugoslavia talked as tough as she could. Yugoslavia pointedly remained outside last week's signing bee and the Skoplje newsorgan Glas Juge (Voice of the South) addressed a stern warning to Bulgaria, whose Parliament began talking of revisionist claims against Yugoslavia. ''The question of Macedonia was settled on the battlefields. Nevermore will the Valley of Vardar be detached from Yugoslavia." That strategic valley is a link in the most convenient route from central Europe to strategic Salonika...
...Revolt," in which many Government leaders were killed. He was publicly cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into the Army. In December 1937, on his own initiative he ordered his artillery and air squadron to fire on the British gunboats Ladybird, Scarab and Bee, and on the U.S.S. Panay, which was sunk. For this gross insubordination he was reprimanded but never punished...
Last week the National Tuberculosis Association took a cue from Walt Disney, released the first animated cartoon on public health. The picture, which combines photographs with drawings, is called "Goodbye, Mr. Germ." It tells the adventures of "Tee Bee," who swims around from lung to lung, raising an enormous family, and drilling through lung-pipes. The germ, who wears a top hat and cackles like The Shadow, finally gets trapped in a sanatorium. Message: watch out for lingering coughs, get tuberculin tests and X-rays...
Rimsky-Korsakov's much-played Flight of the Bumble Bee comes from an opera, Tsar Saltan, little played outside of Russia. At the opera's climax the son of Tsar Saltan turns into a bumblebee, stings two wicked women, eludes pursuing courtiers. Last week a Manhattan audience screamed and yowled with delight at this tale. The opera, retitled The Bumble Bee Prince, was put on by a non-commercial organization called Junior Programs, Inc. The audience: 1,600 school children, aged 5 to 15 (700 more were turned away). Admission...
...Last year Victor recorded Junior Programs, The Bumble Bee Prince. On current Victor lists are Robin Hood (in the form of a musical play) and Hansel and Gretel (with orchestra), which Junior Programs occasionally sends on tour...