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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they uncovered first a white handbag, then the body of a young girl, fully dressed, doubled up like a jackknife. She had been strangled. With their chests out, officers of the prefecture of police presently announced that they had solved the mystery of the disappearance of U. S. Dancer Jean De Koven, had arrested the most heinous mass murderer since France's famed Henri Desire Landru. Dancer De Koven's brother Henry, a U. S. theatrical director, commented bitterly...
...Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer, is an honorary member of the chorus, and has written many of his best known choral songs for the Helsinki group...
...Paris nightclub. In 1937, Josie Baker announced to the world her marriage to an Italian count, one Pepito di Abatino. Research proved first that the count's title was bogus, next that they were not married. But married in earnest was Josephine Baker last week to Jean Lion, wealthy French manufacturer and amateur aviator. Crevecoeur-le-Grand was chosen for the nuptials, the village mayor, six-foot Jammy Schmidt performing the ceremony...
...Jean v. Paavo. Politically and by temperament Sibelius is a nationalist. A large number of his early works (Kullervo, the Karelia Suite, Finlandia, et al.) were written as patriotic tributes. Though no one has succeeded in identifying any of his melodies as folk themes, considerable controversy still goes on as to whether he has been influenced by national Finnish idioms. His ancestry contains both Finnish and Swedish strains. Clergymen, doctors, merchants and small landowners, including a few intelligent musical amateurs, were his progenitors. He springs from the great ranks of the bourgeois...
...evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked the same question on the streets of Helsingfors the answer would almost certainly be: Jean Julius Christian Sibelius...