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Crowning mockery, as the sorrowing friends of Arthur Henderson pass his bier this week, is that Britain's National Government are confident that they can win a general election by acting belatedly at Geneva as he would have wished, and by simultaneously going to the country with a $1,000,000,000 British rearmament program. This week the World's hopes of Disarmament and the Disarmament Conference can be said to have died with President Henderson...
There was the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the Dictator's unofficial chaplain and national organizer of his Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. This onetime pastor of a rich Shreveport Christian Church congregation surpassed himself in a 15-minute eulogy over his dead chief's bier. It began: "Greater love hath no man. . . . The lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food...
...wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously, OH-ing and AH-ing in mechanical unison. Now a tall, spare woman...
...enter his sacred Adriatic Room, lined with stalls from an abandoned church. He would surely show Il Duce where he spends his days of solitary contemplation, the chamois-lined Chamber of the Leper which it sometimes pleases him to call the Cell of Pure Dreams. Here on a simple bier the Poet plans...
...fortunate it was that von Papen did not walk behind the bier of the murdered Dollfuss. It would have been unbearable for the hundreds of thousands of mourners to see in the cortege the representative of the regime that is guilty of the death of our beloved Chancellor...