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Died. Caroline Poulder King, 88, last surviving widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 (Private Darius King who served 54 days); in Cheektowaga, N. Y. She married King, then 73, in 1869, drew $14,149 pension (total 1812 War pensions: $43,216,480.57) after he died 17 years later...
...nation a committee appoints a jury of well-known native musicians to judge works submitted by their countrymen. Selections of these national juries are then submitted to a special international jury elected each year by the society's Council of Delegates. This year's jury: Modernist Composers Darius Milhaud (France) and Alois Haba (Czechoslovakia), Conductors Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (England), Ernest Ansermet (Switzerland), Thomas Jensen (Denmark...
Most Lofty. Almost illiterate when he came to the throne, speaking only Persian with a smattering of Russian, Reza Shah Pahlavi had a strong historical sense, pictured himself as a 20th-century Darius even when he was still only a cavalry colonel. When he became Minister of War in a Shah-less government (the former do-nothing Shah had moved to Paris), he acted more like the great Persian monarch. He imposed his will on hitherto independent fierce tribes, hanging dozens of warring sheiks, making other suspected local chieftains his permanent "guests." On a group of disobedient mullahs (Moslem priests...
...Matrimonio ("The Matrimonial Market"), Rossini's first operatic work, an opera-buffa composed when he was 18; Angelique, music by contemporary Frenchman Jacques Ibert, the story of a shopkeeper's efforts to sell his shrewish wife; Le Pauvre Matelot, a "lament in one act," music by Darius Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera...
...York banker, grandson of Darius Mills who made a fortune in the California gold rush of 1849, Ogden Mills graduated from Harvard at 19, studied and practiced law before going into politics, and became like his fellow Harvardian, Franklin Roosevelt, a member of the New York State Senate. After the World War, in which he was a captain in the A.E.F., Ogden Mills went to Congress as a Representative, served three terms, won the reputation of being the House's best informed specialist on taxation and finance. In 1926, he ran for Governor of New York only to find...