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...play by George Brewster Jr., was ably played at a New Haven tryout by Tallant Tubbs, 36, wealthy San Francisco ropemaker who in 1932 was defeated for the Senate in California by William Gibbs McAdoo. As a socialite playboy Actor Tubbs pops on & off stage trying to con sole a beauteous Parkavian heroine after she is stricken with brain trouble, loses zest for her customary pleasures. "I'm giving the role everything I've got," said Actor Tubbs...
...feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...identifies the artist's inspiration with religion, which is sound enough, and recognizes that Communism is a religion, which is unimpeachable. That he commits a number of fallacies in his eloquence does not in the least detract from his effect, for all such theses as his, both pro and con, transcend logic and are not subject to it. Still, the history in his penultimate paragraph is flatly wrong, and it is silly to say that a capitalist artist must cut himself off from the principles of true art. True art is my art; it must be your art that...
...years the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was chiefly made by three people: John Long Severance, its chief patron; Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, its manager, who first convinced Cleveland that it wanted an orchestra; and Con ductor Nikolai Sokoloff who assembled the musicians, trained them from scratch. Peak of the first 15 years came in 1931 when John Severance gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate...
...open their books to Government accountants to find out what rail costs really are. Said Mr. Eastman: "The facts that these letters bear a common date, that they name an identical price . . . and that this price is the odd figure of $37.75) point unmistakably to the con clusion that these letters were the result of consultation and collusion. ... It seems clear that these are noncompetitive prices lacking the safeguard to the consumer which competition provides. Manifestly . . . the [steel] code was not intended to eliminate competition. On the contrary, it is by its own terms a 'Code of Fair Competition...