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Competition from the new Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus (TIME, March 29) has caused the Big Show-the one & only Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus-to bestir itself to present this year a spectacle more exciting than ever. Young Si old who marched into Madison Square Garden last week to see the season's premiere emphatically agreed that the 1937 circus was truly, as advertised, bigger & better...
...weeks. Toscanini and Rodzinski will each conduct ten as sustaining programs. The remaining 32 concerts may or may not be commercially sponsored. Who will conduct them is equally undecided. It seemed certain, however, that Columbia, which usually matches the rival chain feature for feature, would have to bestir itself to equal the first year-round radio concert project under such distinguished auspices...
...Kharkov, fine and flourishing "Industrial Capital of the Ukraine," the political capital being Kiev, "Mother of Russian Towns." In Kharkov rises the modernistic Palace of State Industry, "largest office building in Europe," the tallest sections 13 stories high. In efforts to get droning Red Bureaucrats inside to bestir themselves, the Kharkov managing staffs of a section of the latest Five-Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists seemed on good behavior...
...legitimate vehicle of student opinion than under the democratic petition-clause of the new constitution. The Council is composed of a comparatively small group of men, and must suffer the fate of all parliaments out of touch with their constituencies unless the members of the University bestir themselves to make their desires and opinions felt...
...school is in the last analysis, somewhat monotonous because, in the words of Mr. George Santayane, it has been constant, through those three hundred years, to one purpose and function. Still the moral to be drawn from this 'fidelity to tradition' is exciting and is apt to bestir one to the task not only of perpetuating but also of propagating the ideals for which the Latin School stands...