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Meanwhile the Kingdom of Peter was settling down last week under the new Cabinet of Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch. Like nearly all his predecessors, new Premier Stoyadinovitch is of the ruling Serbian caste but pledged to administer Yugoslavia with due regard for her Croat, Slovene, Moslem and other assorted minorities. This time the Moslems have consented to enter His Majesty's Government, with Bosnian Moslem Mehmed Spaho strutting last week as Minister of Communications. The Croats, traditionally suppressed and embittered boycotters of every government at Belgrade, were for once benevolently on the fence, inclined to give Premier Stoyadinovitch a chance...
...nnhildes who followed Lehmann Milka Ternina, a Croat, was easily next best. Lilian Nordica from Farmington, Me. sang better than she acted. Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...
...present situation, however, the alignment is different. Jugo-Slavia, apparently confident of French support, has taken a threatening attitude towards Hungary. Meanwhile Italy, whose alliance with Hungary has proved to be mutually beneficial, is the natural enemy of the Serb-Croat-Slovene state and urges resistance to its aggressions. Therefore any conflict resulting from this crisis would find France and Italy in opposite camps...
Like the assassins of King Alexander, Artist Vanka is a Croat. Born in Zagreb 44 years ago, he wears a soft brown beard, likes to paint in an embroidered blouse and a black trilby hat. He is easily Yugoslavia's best known portraitist. His painting is workmanlike, able...
Master Mind. In addition to the three accomplices of Assassin Vlada Georgieff who were caught fortnight ago in France, the Jugoslav and French detectives working on the case last week got track of the murder gang's "master mind." He proved to be the onetime Croat Deputy they had suspected from the first, burly, square-jawed Dr. Ante Pavelitch (TIME...