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...also have between them a little minority problem of their own. Living just south of the Brenner Pass, in what Austrians call the South Tyrol and the Italians insist upon referring to as the Upper Adige, are some 200,000 German-speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve it for once and for all. The method they chose was the hard way-a transfer of the population, not the territory, back...
...most cockeyed California cult of all-The Mighty I AM Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When they turned around...
Andre Marchal, celebrated blind organist of the Church of St. Germain des Pres in Paris, is giving a recital on Friday evening, December 2, at 8:15 o'clock on the famous baroque organ of the Germanic Museum. The program will consist of music by Clerambault and Bach, and of improvisation on a given theme...
Born in Paris February 6, 1894, Marchal began his musical studies at L'Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles. Since 1915 he has held the post of organist of St. Germain des Pres. His career as a virtuoso is a spectacular one. His own series of recitals at St. Germain des Pres have covered most of the organ literature...
Last fortnight prepscholars scuffing the first fallen elm leaves around Andover, Mass, held an enviable artistic privilege- or so thought William Germain Dooley, art critic of the immortal Boston Evening Transcript. Just opened at Andover's starchy, Georgian, richly-endowed Addison Gallery of American Art was the first comprehensive exhibition in New England of paintings by the late Maurice Prendergast and his brother, Charles, now 70. The Prendergasts were Boston boys whom Boston never bothered to honor. But since Impressionist Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely...