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...term. The Provost of King's College's production of Aristophanes' "Frogs" seems to have got under way today without serious depletion, but the grand production of "Julius Caesar," which the Marlowe Society and the A. D. C. are jointly preparing for next week (with your compatriot, Mr. Max Millikan as Cassius) has already lost its Antony, not to mention its Soothsayer, and the producers are fearing that other members of the cast may have been infected at rehearsal. But the resources of the societies in the way of understudies are enormous, and whatever happens, the play will...
...scenarists. Almost anyone who is not otherwise engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their central character, Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...
...seven years thereafter Sembrich continued to give recitals. On one program she sang folksongs in a dozen different dialects. After 1917 she devoted herself to teaching. And as a teacher she was peerless. Paderewski, Sembrich's compatriot, once called her "the most musical singer he had ever known." The late Henry Edward Krehbiel, for 43 years critic of the New York Tribune, described her style as "exquisite and plainly the outgrowth of a thoroughly musical nature.'' In the New York Sun William I. Henderson, dean of U. S. music critics, said last week: "That her name will...
DURANTY REPORTS RUSSIA - Walter Duranty-Viking ($2.75). The best-known U. S. foreign correspondent is an Englishman. Like his compatriot, Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, Walter Duranty is a veteran at his post. Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last...
General Balbo, bursting into the room, found his compatriot Italian Deputy Carlo Costamagna reviling and reviled by French Deputy Pierre Renaudel. It appeared that Fascist Costamagna had been fulsomely lauding the Fascist regime when stocky Socialist Renaudel burst out, "Yours is a country without a free parliament, and there is no justice where liberty does not exist...