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Died. Baron Frederic Koranyi, 66 Hungarian statesman and diplomat; Minister of Finance (1919) who reorganized the Hungarian financial administrate: after the Soviet regime of Bela Kun; in Budapest...
...convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant Amalgamated...
...Raven (Universal). Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi and Boris ("Frankenstein") Karloff, foremost U. S. cinemonsters, first played together in The Black Cat, "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's story (TIME, May 28, 1934). The Raven "suggested" by that frail, pathetic poet's best-known poem, suffers chiefly from the obligation its producers felt to give it more bloodcurdling situations and paraphernalia than The Black Cat. Consequently the picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. One imposing piece of equipment is a bedroom which descends to the basement like an elevator when its owner wishes to harass...
...Rameau, Mozart, and Hayden. Having perhaps studied the nineteenth century, our student skips a hundred years, but faints away on the cold floor of the stacks when he finds no English composers except a little Vaughan Williams and Holst; none of the Italian, Malipiero; no scores of the Hungarians, Bela Bartok and Kodaly; no modern German or Austrian except Schoenberg; some Russians, but no Prokofleff. The final shock comes when he finds modern America represented solely by MacDowell and Foote. Upon regaining his senses, the poor student borrows what he can from the private collection of his tutor, the pages...
...young encausticist still at work on the nose of Albert Einstein. In a special post of honor was the head of Mae West and on shelves, ready to be mounted, were the staring heads of Los Angeles' own heroes: Will Rogers, Lon Chaney. Adolphe Menjou, Lawrence Tibbett, Bela Lugosi...