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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute in 1925. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave $10,000; Julius Rosenwald $2,500; Lee, Higginson & Co. $1,000; International General Electric Co. $500; Thomas W. Lament $500. These and other donations from countries facing the Pacific Ocean reached a total of $90,000. The first Institute was held in Honolulu. So was the second Institute in 1927. Last week in Kyoto the third Institute...
...insistently recalled from the front by Prime Minister Clémenceau, M. Le Capitain Tardieu was sent to the U. S. as French High Commissioner. The appointment was almost a scandal. Le Capitain had never before held even ministerial rank. But he justified the "Tiger's" confidence. In the U. S. he borrowed and spent three and a half billion dollars on munitions for France...
...nine "republicans of good will" starred (*) above held posts in the last cabinet. Of utmost political importance are the three new ministers from the party of Hornet Daladier?namely M. Hubert (Justice), M. Marraud (Public Instruction), M. Gallet (Pensions). It is just possible that the presence of these Radical Socialists will swing the vote of that party to the cabinet, though Hornet Daladier was believed preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face...
...Louis Symphony began a Golden Jubilee season to milestone its 50 years of existence. As has been the situation for two years past, St. Louis has no permanent conductor; guest leaders will split the schedule. Spaniard Enrique Fernandez Arbos held the baton last week. Italian Bernardino Molinari will succeed him in January. Then follows George Szell of the Berlin Staatsoper, making his U. S. debut, and Eugene Goossens (see above...
Last week in Manhattan the first one-man show of Modigliani was held. Among the 37 canvases, mostly portraits of his Paris friends, was one of his earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...