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...Divertimento by Alexai Haieff, a young Russian-born composer now living in the United States, was the composition; its value seemed to many in the audience extremely limited. It is dangerous to condemn a new work too quickly, but this seemed at first hearing to be nothing more than inferior theatrical background music which might have been used for "On the Town." Why Burgin chose to play it is a mystery typical of the whole in-and-out tradition of the Boston Symphony...
...Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 limits total annual immigration to 150,000, with individual nations held to a number proportional to their representation in the total 1920 United States population. However, the "Anglo-Saxons" and "Nordies" received a disproportionately large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared to menace full employment, the standard of living, and the assimilation process. A popular political bandwagon to jump on in 1924, restricted immigration appealed at once...
...Human Bondage--at the Paramount and Fenway--An inferior version of the Maugham novel, which was portrayed on the screen once before in a manner able enough to make superfluous this Paul Henried-Alexis Smith attempt...
Meanwhile, at the Paris Peace Conference, Russian-dominated Bulgaria asked for the eastern half of Thrace. In effect, this would give Russia an Aegean coastline, an inferior port (Dede Agach). More important, it would further seal off the Straits, further menace Turkey and Greece...
...only did producers rush to market with great numbers of animals (including a high percentage of culls and inferior grades), but they got record prices for them as slaughterers, too, fought for quick predeadline profits. The Chicago price for full-fed steers hit an alltime high of $28.40 a hundredweight, then rose another $1.60. First day this week, the torrent turned into a deluge. Trucks loaded with hogs and steers were lined up 30 blocks waiting for the yards to open. By sundown the number of steers received was approximately 40,000, just a cut or two under the famous...