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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henri ("Père Gaspard") Chèron. 69, longtime government finance expert member of twelve French Cabinets; childhood playmate of St. Therese of Lisieux (the "Little Flower"): of peritonitis; in Lisieux, France. In 1934 he was ejected as Minister of Justice for supposedly bungling the Stavisky scandal investigation...
STRANGE GLORY-L. H. Myers-Earcourt, Brace ($2). Tragic triangle story of the deep South, by an author whose trilogy (The Root and the Flower) was called "ultra-Proustian...
...Austrian Tyrol and in Maine and they embrace a broad variety of subjects. Among the more striking landscapes is a magnificent shot of a verdant Alpine valley under the shadow of a towering mountain head wall. Especially illustrative of the delicacy of Dr. Porter's technique are the flower studies including a translucently vivid composition of dogwood branches and flowers and a superbly detailed picture of a single rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically...
...publicising its presentation this year, the Classical Club is serving a double purpose with particular fitness. It celebrates three hundred years of academic effort and achievement, and it also points a compelling finger at a vigorous previous flower on the tree of drama when apparently a new bud is struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there...
Only Rumanian champagne is really inferior to German champagne, but in years gone by Salesman von Ribbentrop also carried a nice line of flower-scented German hocks much esteemed by British aristocrats. They tasted, bought, liked Joachim von Ribbentrop. After he married money many of these contacts ripened into friendships. Piquant was the fact last week that the violent treaty rupture committed by vegetarian & teetotaling Adolf Hitler should be defended and explained to the Council of the League of Nations gathered in beef-eating Britain by a onetime Rhine wine salesman whose duty was to champion & excuse remilitarization...