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...which included Ballet Méchanique, scored for ten pianos, xylophones, rattles and whistles. Ballet Méchanique had a frosty reception. Critics hooted and Composer Antheil returned immediately to the land which he said understood him better. Yet even Europeans failed him last week at the premiere in Frankfort of his opera Transatlantic or The People's Choice. The scene is a hectic, cocktail-mad Manhattan; the hero a politician who beats his way up from the ranks to the U. S. presidency and loses the woman he loves. Despite Antheil's claim that he is deeply...
Ticklish was the task faced by genial, dapper James ("Jim") Speyer, who was born in the home city of the house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...
Bald, paunchy and sallow, Baron Maurice is a grandson of James Rothschild, clever, redheaded Frankfort Jew who founded the French branch of his House, backed the governments of Louis Philippe and Napoleon III and was bitterly assailed in French Republican papers as "Rothschild I, King of the Jews...
...Frankfort, Ky., where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would lay for me till their dying day. I'm a hillbilly myself, so I know...
...situation is valued are plagued by the press to declare an opinion. Else where in this mornings's CRIMSON Professor Doriot has explained to Harvard readers the work which was accomplished at Baden, and has found but one criticism or cause for regret great enough to deserve his stress. Frankfort, he says, or Cologne, or some other German city might have been superior to Basel as a location for the International Bank...