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...explosions meant that Dictator Irigoyen's minister had finally screwed up their courage to the point of telling him unanimously that he must do something to appease popular wrath. What he had done was to hand over the executive power to Vice President Enrique V. Martinez, trusty henchman. Under the Argentine Constitution a president can do this whenever he feels like it, can also resume his full original powers by a stroke of the pen. First act of Temporary President Martinez was to declare martial law and clap on iron censorship-but no rigor could conceal the angry disappointment...
Leguia's agents have for years sent him weekly reports?political litmus papers of the public's reaction to his rule. Two months ago, with the successful overthrowing of Bolivia's Dictator President Hernando Siles and his strong-armed Prussian henchman, General Hans Kundt, the litmus turned red. Trouble was brewing in the southern provinces. President Leguia promptly demoted overambitious army officers, closed universities, arrested student agitators. But the trouble spread, the litmus stayed red. One Luis Sanchez Cerro, Colonel of Sappers at Arequipa near the Chilean border, declared open rebellion fortnight ago. In four days, progressing almost without bloodshed...
Died. Lewis J. Link, 79, retired preserve manufacturer, uncle of Composer Joseph Deems Taylor (The King's Henchman, Through the Looking Glass); on July 19, in Buenos Aires...
When Composer Joseph Deems Taylor collaborated with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay on the opera The King's Henchman in 1927, their work evoked such acclaim that Composer Taylor was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to do another. First he worked on Heywood Broun's allegorical Candle Follows His Nose, dropped it, set to work on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto...
Peter Ibbetson will have more arias than The King's Henchman and a great deal of choral singing. Two orchestras will be used, one in the pit, and one. during several scenes, on stage. Settings have been designed by famed Joseph Urban...