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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage of General Chiang was important because it made him the post-mortem brother-in-law of the Kuomintang's late sainted Sun; brother-in-law of Big Banker T. V. Soong; and brother-in-law of Dr. H. H. Kung, famed descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius, who also married a Soong girl. Chiang returned to China to head the Kuomintang Government at Nanking. He was soon styled the Generalissimo, and headed a campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most fortunate for the Generalissimo...
...conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open to attack, and so populous that her resources of man power cannot soon be exhausted. Her greatest weakness has always been in will power. If Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling can maintain their will as China's will-the same will which said that "any sacrifice should not be regarded as too costly"-Chinese prospects are good. China's prospects now as they have been...
...Connie Mack has celebrated his birthday on Dec. 23. Last summer he visited his birthplace (East Brookfield, Mass.), discovered he was born Dec. 22, 1862, decided it was too late to change and plans to continue observing his nativity on the 23rd. It is characteristic that the Mack legend, greatest in baseball history, should start right off with a myth...
...street, a symphony conductor is somebody who flops his arms in a sweating frenzy while others do the job. His are the most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not, neither does he toot, thump nor sing. How does anybody know whether he can even read music? Yet at the end of the concert it is he who takes the bows, not the laboring instrumentalists over whom he presides. Is his a job, or a racket...
...Rosenkavalier and Roméo et Juliette have been billed as "revivals."' Yet neither had been absent more than three years from the repertory; Rosenkavalier had not even been newly staged. Last week a genuine revival finally did appear. Verdi's Otello, one of his last and greatest works, had not been seen & heard at the Opera House since the days when Toscanini conducted and principal roles were taken by dashing Leo Slezak, gossipy Frances Alda and drama-wise Antonio Scotti...