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After his press ordeal, Dr. Einstein had a good time in Manhattan. He looked up two old friends, Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Violinist Fritz Kreisler, called upon John Davison Rockefeller Jr., met Helen Keller. Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, invited the Einsteins to a concert, sat them in a box belonging to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested...
Shylock as a stage character has been the subject of many various interpretations. For Fritz Leiber he was almost a tragic hero, while George Arliss played the role as a fawning and thoroughly wicked villain. In this latest production of "The Merchant of Venice" now playing at the Tremont, Mr. Maurice Moscovitch gives what seems to this reviewer to be the most intelligent estimation of the Jew of Venice that has been presented in recent years. Neither one extreme nor the other, Shylock, as Mr. Moscovitch portrays him, is a very complex character, a man who commands at once scorn...
Honored. Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, 66; with the John Fritz medal, top honor of the engineering profession; by the American Societies of Civil, Mining & Metallurgical, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He built his country's War fleet (800 vessels in four years, a record...
...Other John Fritz medalists: Herbert Clark Hoover (1930), Elmer Ambrose Sperry...
...good Tahiti Gauguin, Renoir's Claude as a Clown in Red, Cezanne's Man with a Pipe, eight irreproachable Derains. Another beauteous young socialite ma tron to take art seriously is Mrs. Mary Gallery Coudert, who last week obtained a Paris divorce from Attorney Frederic R. ("Fritz") Coudert Jr. (defeated last November for New York's District Attorney- ship by Tammany's Judge Thomas C. T. Grain) because domesticity interfered with her sculpture. She will make her home in a Paris studio...