Word: czar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish representative at Geneva in 1919; president since 1912 of the American Jewish Committee. Modest, retiring, Mr. Marshall never disclosed the amounts of his benefactions. Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...
...Weill and Librettist Bertolt Brecht are both 30-three years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly...
...Lash of the Czar (Amkino). Propaganda, regardless of whether it is issued in a just cause or a stupid one, is always disagreeable. It is especially disagreeable when dished out to the public with an indigestible sugar-coating of Art. But although propaganda has spoiled for the U. S. public many pictures which, wildly praised by some critics for their scenic effects, were merely soap-box communism, propaganda does not spoil this story of a governor with a conscience...
...just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back to her beloved Paris, and a Parisian lover, does she come glowingly to life, and then in vain, such is the relentless requirement of her position...
Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...