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...original Paris Crédit Municipal was founded by King Louis XVI, as a noble experiment to see whether the rapacity of private lenders could be checked by the State. It could. Under the august patronage of Napoleon I and his successors, pawnbroking in France has made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace...
...inspiration. Folk songs should not be an end in themselves, but a tool in the hands of a Vaughan Williams or a Chopin for the highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even racial boundaries. And Wagner's supreme failure was in his attempt to make music an auxiliary to drama, or to tie the abstract to the particular. Although the essays are slight in scope, their influence has already been great...
...better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck cr Florenz Ziegfeld's Smiles. Best number in Through the Years is "Drums In My Heart," which should be drumming long after the show is packed off to the warehouse...
...passed, a startling demonstration developed. Veterans came along flourishing beer steins. One New York unit lustily sang the Brown Derby's "Sidewalks of New York" while gesturing derisively at President Hoover. The President saw trundled by a little cart bearing a keg, jugs, empty gin bottles festooned in crêpe paper. He heard crowds yelling: "There's something for Hoover to swallow! What do you think of that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under his nose the President...
...Perdriat "legend" is supported by certain facts, remote from the facts of her painting. Well off, she lives expensively, smartly at Auteuil. Her servants are tropical Negroes; her parties are dignified by names, as "Une Nuit Créole." Her pictures sell as fast as she can turn them off her easel. She has never painted a man, only young women with long, equivocal eyes like her own. She had never painted a blonde girl until she visited Norway two years ago and met one she admired. She once sent to the Salon D'Automne a self portrait, nude...