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...balcony of Juliet is a witness-box on which most good actresses have at one time stood for final appraisal. In her trial, Miss LeGallienne ran a conscientious gamut of flippancy, catlike nervousness, passion, despair. Donald Cameron's Romeo was comely but lethargic...
...discover how soon he can withdraw U. S. Marines from Haiti, what he can do for Haiti in the meantime, President Hoover with congressional authority last week appointed two commissions, one formal and white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute...
...decade or so ago outraged U. S. dealers would probably have been more deliberate in declaring war and returning work by Sir David Young Cameron, Muirhead Bone, Edmund Blampied and other notables. But the demand for native work has increased several hundred per cent in the last dozen years, and with the demand has grown the number and fame of U. S. etchers. British prices are still the highest: a Cameron has sold for $4.000, whereas $1,125 Paid at an auction for Frank Weston Benson's Pintails is still the U. S. record. But few prints, abroad...
DVORAK'S SYMPHONY No. 4 by Basil Cameron and Symphony Orchestra (Brunswick, $4)-Whereby the great Czech will prove to many that he wrote other symphonies than the New World. His Fourth has Czech folk themes, skillfully woven variations...
...Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet-master capering on a stage, surrounded by his puppets who are seen to be Cabinet Members Chase, Cameron and Welles and Generals Fremont, Scott and McLellan. When, as President-elect in 1861, Lincoln journeyed to Washington, receiving great acclaim in the northern cities, he was warned to forego a visit to Democratic Baltimore. Friends commissioned Allan Pinkerton, spy (later founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), to investigate...