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...word "republic" will be omitted. Conceivably the von Papen Cabinet, acting by presidential decree, could so alter the fundamental law of Germany as to prevent the Hitlerites, who won 14,000,000 votes in the last Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8), from scoring further gains. Said Satevepost correspondent Isaac Marcos-son, returning from Germany last week: "Chancellor von Papen will disenfranchise 50% of Adolf Hitler's followers if he raises the voting age, as he may, to 25 years" [from...
...Alfredo Salmaggi, showman-maestro, has been running an Open Air Opera Company in Soldier Field; last week he put on a well- publicized Carmen, with tame bulls from the stockyards. One winter possibility is twelve weeks of opera, to be performed by a semi-co-operative troupe under Conductor Isaac Van Grove of the Cincinnati Zoo Opera, formerly assistant conductor of Chicago's Civic Opera. This would be guaranteed by $200,000 of Chicago money, housed in the old, popular Auditorium Theatre of the late Civic Opera. Another possibility is a ten-week season of a company...
...them got a divorce to become his mistress, died before their experiment had completely failed. Now, middleaged, unambitious, disillusioned, he waits to see what will happen with the rest of his life, has no high hopes, except some day to write "an enormous critical study and biography of Isaac Newton...
...Married. Isaac Gerson Swope, 28, son of President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co.; and Mrs. Elizabeth Hanson Burr, divorcee; in Salem, Mass...
...London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn once planned to take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music for her. He inherited his fortune from his father, Isaac Merritt Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines. Died. William ("Billy") Jerome, 67. music publisher and composer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Among his hits: "Bedelia," "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown," and his latest, "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." His wife, the former Maude Nugent, wrote "Sweet...