Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff barriers fixed, international commerce would at least be able to adjust itself to a definite scale of "necessary evils." Paradoxically, though last week's manifesto seemed destined to produce no real effect, it caused marked temporary fluctuations on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Berlin Bourse...
...season will receive ten new singers: Sopranos: Elda Vettori of St. Louis; Martha Attwood of Baltimore; Louise Lerch of Allentown (Pa.), pupil of Marcella Sembrich; Editha Fleischer, who came to the U. S. several seasons ago with the Wagnerian Opera Company; Tenors: Walter Kirchov, German, onetime member of the Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...
Divorced. Prince Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, by the Princess, Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, 47, at Berlin (TIME, Oct. 4). Both intend to remarry shortly, the Princess's choice, among conflicting reports, favoring a police lieutenant, one Von Hedemann...
...improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some of the rarest fish in the world...
...founders of the contemporary tradition--men who have been dead twenty years are equally neglected. It is actually impossible for an amateur to study in any of these great galleries, a single painting by Cazanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, masters who are honored the world over--in London, Paris, Berlin, in Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, in the Low Countries, in Chicago and New York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century painting is half-heartedly illustrated through the Impressionist period. But after...