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...agreed that Maeterlinck's mistress, Georgette Leblanc, should be the first to sing Meélisande. But the director of the Paris Opéra Comique had other ideas: he chose a young singer from the U. S., Mary Garden. When Maeterlinck heard the news, he set off, cane in hand, to give Debussy a thrashing. He gave the composer no more than a fright, but wrote to Le Figaro wishing Pelléas et Meélisande "immediate and emphatic failure." It turned out to be a success, and Maeterlinck stayed away from it. In 1920, persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maeterlinck Goes to the Opera | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...exception was Cuba. To prop up her sugar cane industry, Cuba asked for $50,000,000, settled for $11,200,000 and an upped sugar quota. When the sugar beet growers in the U. S. heard about the deal and their reduced 1941 quota (16% below 1940), they roared, charged the New Deal with wanting to kill the industry, quoted Secretary Ickes* to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mr. Pierson Pitches Woo | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...young man, with a bowler hat, cane, flaxen moustache, and blue suit was looking at a gorilla in a zoo. . . . Perceiving that they were alone, the gorilla addressed the young man as follows: "You look very good-natured. Get me a suit like yours, only larger, a bowler hat, and a cane. We will dispense with the moustache. I want to get out of here. I got ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoot Owl at Large | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...nothing. Wearing the same clothes until they wore out, he imperceptibly became Uncle Alex, the most familiar figure of the neighborhood-a portly man now, kindly but frugal, helpful, but insisting on being paid for it, his brown hair reduced to a faint fringe, stumping along with his blackthorn cane to a nearby restaurant, observing Sunday by changing his tie and eating a better meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Uncle Alex | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three, or only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMOBILES: Plastic Fords | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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