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...from which they were barred not only by the imposed Treaty of Versailles but by the voluntary Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec.14, 1925)This Surprise-of-1936 the British refused to take tragically, pointing out that while it was a flagrant violation of treaties, nevertheless the Rhineland was German soil. Bereft of British help, the loud fury of the French had soon to subside. The Surprise-of-1937 last week was not even remotely so important to the French or British as his sending of soldiers into the Rhineland but it was sprung by Hitler as something immensely important...
...strong Missouri following. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was driving for money last week and awaiting the return of towering Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony will be playing again under the beneficent command of Pierre Monteux. The New York Philharmonic, bereft of Arturo Toscanini, has postponed its season's opening until November when John Barbirolli, an obscure young Englishman so far as the U. S. is concerned, will take over the first ten weeks. Barbirolli's appointment has been frowned upon by many a Philharmonic subscriber who may soon...
...study French and art and music she had a wonderful time buying clothes and automobiles and giving her chaperones the slip. And she had a strong sense of curiosity. "I learned most of what has been helpful . . . from peeking or from bolder observations." When she was bereft of rouge and lipstick she learned how to get color by licking the cover of a Baedeker. And when she discovered that her family did not want her to marry a certain Italian prince she let herself be bought off with a Mercedes...
Back in London Mr. Savage, bereft of job and money, disappeared forever. Never much of a factor in his wife's accounts of their life, this good Britisher lost what remained of his identity when the former Maria Metten took to pronouncing their name as if it were French. In 1908 Chorus Master Giulio Setti offered her a place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when...
...pretty Spanish girl, John decided to stay and listen to the nightingales. The strike over, the arresting semicolon lifted, the travellers went on, to finish their sentences in a new direction. Sadder and supposedly wiser, Julian and the jilted bride bore each other company to Corunna, brave but bereft. The Author looks like a British Richard Halliburton. An Oxonian, he once distinguished himself at rowing by upsetting the entire eight because he had stopped to look at a kingfisher. Now 26 and an advertising copywriter, he travels when he can, goes alone, stops at cheap hotels, loves Spain. Delay...