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Jumping into the political fray. Mountain-Straddler Albert showed his statesmen how to do it. After four days of intensive negotiations behind-scenes, the cabinet withdrew their resignation, steadied the Brussels and Antwerp stock exchanges, which had begun to slip...
...Last of the Wood Engravers" is the third of the recent Foundation films. It was produced to preserve and make available for posterity the extraordinary technique of Timothy Cole, last of the great wood engravers. His subject in this presentation is the EI Greco masterpiece, "Fray Feliz Hortensio", in the Boston Museum. The fourth of the productions of the Film Foundation is entitled "The Silversmith", an illustration of the technique of the art of the silversmith. It was produced through the cooperation of A. J. Stone, an outstanding worker in silver in this country...
...Arbor, Mich., Nov. 6, 1930--As the temperature dropped down to real football weather today the Michigan gridders went through the last practice on Ferry Field before entraining for the big fray at Cambridge. The practice session was called early and a two hour workout was spent before the departure at 5 o'clock...
...kindly, understanding monk, able Eugene Goossens conducting. Both performances were consistently excellent. Minor parts were capably taken, the orchestra played smoothly, sets were effective, the lighting pleased. These essentials to good opera were in large measure the contribution of another Philadelphia woman, comparatively new to the operatic fray. The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last year became affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music, secured the backing of a $12,500,000 endowment fund and the interest of Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of the late editor Edward William Bok of Ladies' Home Journal, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar...
...Chinese War Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years with brilliance undimmed, braggadocio redoubled. Last week from the limbo of a remote Buddhist monastery in Tibet there returned to the everlasting Chinese fray Comet Wu Pei-fu, the "Scholar War Lord...