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...Maquis, about 600 strong, were entrenched on the Plateau des Glières, a tableland in southeastern France near the Swiss border. To wipe them out, the Germans massed an estimated 12,000 men, much artillery, squadrons of planes, planned to open with an artillery barrage. The French fooled them...
...most famous ballet conceived in Soviet Russia had its Manhattan premiere last week. It was The Red Poppy, a stark, fist-shaking proletarian melodrama set to lush, romantic music by Russia's aging Reinhold Glière. It caused almost as much excitement in Manhattan's City Center of Music and Drama as it had in Moscow at its first performance in 1927. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with Alexandra Danilova as the star, gave it an energetic performance. But it was not the same Red Poppy that Muscovites had cheered in the Bolshoi Theater 17 years...
...Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3 ("Ilya Murometz") (Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor; 11 sides). A Soviet composer, no modernist, writes rousingly of Ilya Murometz, a mythical Russian resembling Paul Bunyan and the classical, earth-sustained Antaeus. Stokowski gives it the works...
...London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s'accose nel foco che gli affina...
...other incunabula have lately been bought with the gift of Mr. Alain C. White: namely, Vergil, with the commentary of Servius Honoratus, Venice, printed by Jacobus Rubeus, 1475, and Petrach, Gli Triompi, Venice, Bartholomeus di Zanis...