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...West's husband, ex-hoofer Frank Wallace, sued the rolling blonde for $1,000 a month separate maintenance, charging her with adultery with her business manager, friendliness with colored and Filipino prizefighters. He said she had kept employers from hiring him after the revelation of their 1911 marriage. // Cinemactress Ann Sothern announced a trial separation from Husband Roger Pryor, gave "our widely divergent activities" as the trouble, // Model Mary Bland Reynolds, Senator Robert R. Reynolds' 23-year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden...
...music which dapper Conductor Herbert Zipper led his 86 Filipino musicians through last week had nothing remotely reminiscent of the rumble of a Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler...
...expatriated Viennese musician named Alexander Lippay, the Manila Symphony at first had hard sledding, often played to audiences of fewer than 100 people. But by the time Pioneer Lippay died in 1939, it was playing to full houses of 2,000, and Lippay's Filipino symphonists all had regular contracts. Today, playing in the Manila Symphony is a full-time job, pays from pesos 30 ($15) to pesos 150 ($75) a month (as much as the starting salary of a government employe). Key men like four-feet-six Concertmaster Ernesto Vallejo have studied in Europe...
Quezon can ordinarily count on about 75 or 85% of the vote on any issue he puts up to the Filipinos. By masterly handling of patronage (he even appoints the village schoolteachers), by a passionate love of all things Filipino (except the opposition), and by a colorful personality that keeps him bounding into the limelight, he has kept first place among Island politicos for 21 years. But when the war broke out, Quezon was sick. U.S. observers were worried by his silence, his brooding on his yacht, his long rest-cure treatment at the health resort of Baguio...
Miss Horn's contempt is matched by compassion for the plight of the Filipino people. To them, independence is a "bright bauble, merely a gaudy word filled with vague but glorious implications." It is foisted upon them by politicians who themselves doubt its advisability. Should the Filipinos still want independence in 1946 (when the U. S. is willing to relinquish its sovereignty), the U. S. will kill most of their exports with prohibitive tariffs. Their domestic economy demolished, the Philippines could not hope to escape Japanese control through economic (if not military) conquest...