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Finance Minister Emile Franqui, and M. Franck, Governor of the Bank of Belgium, were acclaimed as the two Belgian financiers chiefly responsible for negotiating the international loan, and "advising" King Albert, recently created "Dictator of Belgium" (TIME, July 26) to stabilize the old franc by decree instead of creating a new currency...
...this reason the stabilized Belgian franc-hereafter to be quoted on international exchange in belgas-was dubbed by fiscal humorists last week the "Franck-Franqui franc...
...Franck's symphony came next, mystic, scarlet-tinged. Then came Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu sweeping its fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
...young lions of the conservatoire," one and all. With much gusto two of these attacked a most modern sonata, compounded of unconvincing fifths, dissonances and Debussyesque decoration, with which Albert Huybrechts, young Belgian, had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize for 1926.* Compositions by. other Belgians-rich, sensuous Cesar Franck and trickier Joseph Jongen, little-known chief of the Brussels Conservatory. The afternoon was devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known that the group of Russian peasant songs sung by Baritone Boris Saslavsky...
...Franck Sytiohouy Professor Spalding, Music Building, Music...