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...surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best in the comparative bluntness of prose. And in modern poetry, which has come far from Robbie Burns, gutlessness...
...formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel who for the occasion was Napoleon III. Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting...
...vest, smiles saturninely, plays with no partners, keeps his opponents at a respectful distance. Heavy of form, mellifluous of voice, he goes his own way, and has his own way: attends prizefights unknown to the mob, vents his economic theories among his industrial peers, takes no one into his con- fidence, and has many men under his domination. In practice Allied Chemical is not an alliance but a monarchy and Orlando Franklin Weber is its monarch. Studiously polite, wholly unyielding, little did Mr. Weber care last week for Mr. Gerard's futile questions. Little did he seem to care...
Performance is even more important to a circus than novelty and this year John Ringling has banked more heavily on it than ever. There are no new major performers. But Con Colleano, the only man on earth who can turn a front somersault and land upright on a tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what...
While Madrid police were carrying out a government order to seize all copies of a local Fascist newspaper two things happened last week. The Socialist Cabinet of Premier Manuel Azana received a vote of confidence 201 to 1, and Madrid youths marched through the Capital shouting: "Abajo con Hitler! Fuera con Fascismo!" ("Down with Hitler-out with Fascism...