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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprises were few as the official Mussolini-Chamberlain text was released in full, but observers noted: 1) It omits the expected direct reference to Palestine, although indirectly referring to existing Italian treaty rights in connection with that mandate. 2) Britain and Italy agree to bring each other up to date each year with information on their military, naval and air forces. 3) Respecting the interests of Italy in the Mediterranean, which were to have been called "vital" while those of Britain were to have been called only "essential," this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen...
Iranian public building has all been under direct orders of the Shah. He approved plans, altered details. Little did it seem to matter to the King of Kings that an architect omitted plumbing detail when building a hotel, that Teheran's water supply still came through the streets in half-open, easily contaminated cement drains, that Teheran's old electric power plant had a limited capacity. When His Imperial Majesty drove at night through a street not sufficiently lighted for his tastes, he ordered more powerful bulbs installed. Upshot of this was that the rest of Teheran...
Director of the play will be William Berssenbrugge '37, who has been studying acting and stage production in London for the past year. Mrs. Herbert Harris, director of the Junior League Glee Club, Boston, will direct the choral score, and the voices will be divided by the Radcliffe Choral Society, New England Conservatory, Handel and Hayden Society, Bach Cantata, Cecilia Society, and Junior League Glee Club. The Pierian Sodality under the direction of Malcolm Holmes '28 will play the instrumental accompaniment...
Berssenbrugge said in commenting on the choice of this play. "Their translation employees simple, vigorous, and direct vernacular, with never the suggestion of wordiness, and projects with ease and startling modernity the poetry and dramatic flavor of the play...
President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System last week put his annual stockholders' report on the air- in direct competition with Kay Kyser's dance orchestra on NBC-and it delighted Columbia executives that Mr. Paley had a bad case of microphone fright. Hovering around him in his office at Columbia's Madison Avenue studios in Manhattan were two production men, two vice presidents, one engineer, two page boys. There were duplicate microphones in case one broke down, a precaution not usually taken with either Jack Benny or President Roosevelt...