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Begun in 1924, Surrealisme sprang from a scientific background. Of the three founders of the movement, Breton, Aragon, and Soupault, the first two were physicians and neurological specialists...
...North German Lloyd liner Europe. hove-to with engines idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west...
...time. But never had it been attempted so far from New York. Mail planes heretofore have left ships off Cape Cod, 600 or 700 mi. from port. The Europa was 1.275 mi. out of New York. Six hours after leaving the steamer the seaplane alighted at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, discharged its Canadian mail, refuelled. Then it flew all night down the coast to Bridgeport. Conn., fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa's Brooklyn pier early in the morning, nearly 28 hr. ahead of the liner. It was the first time that transatlantic mail had beaten its steamer...
...earthy, uncomprehending Breton peasants of La Motte, France, Dr. Pierre Etienne Meral, Russian-born, onetime personal physician to King Menelek II of Abyssinia, announced that he intended to commit suicide. A melancholy Tolstoian who could not conscientiously use violence on himself, he decided to starve himself to death. Last week, after 60 days of debilitating hunger, he succeeded...
Spanish Album by the orchestra and chorus of the Brussels Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie under Conductor Maurice Bustin and the Madrid Symphony under Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Columbia, $10)?Representative music of the Spanish contemporaries de Falla, Breton, Albeniz, Turina. Because of de Falla's impending visit to the U. S. and the exotic interpretations of La Argentina, widest interest will be aroused by the dances from La Vida Breve...