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Everybody expected that the crisis would be reached during the noonday Friday (Moslem Sunday) service in Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar. The orthodox extremist Rabbi Moses Blau asked the Government to keep Arab villagers out of Jerusalem on that day, was told that the Government could not interfere in the religious affairs of the Arabs. Said the Rabbi: "That is the same reply I received on Aug. 23, 1929, just one hour before the big massacre of Jews began" (TIME, Sept...
...lively widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York. Not to be outdone by the O. C. A., Mrs. Snipman has now written a ballet, Litter in the Street, presented last week in Town Hall as the feature of a Children's Spring Festival. Children in Daisy Blau's Dance Group pretended to be street dirt while two pianos played jazzy music by Will Irwin, and Howard Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman's verses, gesticulating passionately. Whirling papers, dusty mops, cans, cans, pots and pans brought on lugubrious germs which attacked a group...
...Hopes (by Romney Brent; Bela Blau. producer). From Romney Brent, a mad little player, could well be expected a mad little play. Pomposity is a Brent specialty, and the name of his heroine, an extremely fey matron, keys the whole comedy-Clytemnestra Hope...
Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...Germans adopted "Blau" gas, a mixture of several gases obtained by cracking petroleum. The gas prepared to take the Graf Zeppelin back to Germany is ethane, extracted from natural gas. It is asserted that ethane is not only cheaper to produce than Blau gas but is a better fuel. Germany, which has little natural gas, cannot produce...