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...limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. "This is the last time that Soviet Russia will send a delegation to this Preparatory Conference," he declared, recalling that three years ago he submitted a proposal for "absolute disarmament" of all nations, and later...
...Central Committee finally was satisfied. . . . The color scheme is symbolical, black, red, and grey -black and red being the Soviet mourning colors with grey as the workers' color." On the lowest step of the tomb stood the leaders of Communism last week to watch the parade. Dictator Josef Stalin in a soldier's kepi and greatcoat; Commissar of War Clemence Voroshilov; Commissar of Education Andrei Bubnov, et al. Correspondents watching the parade noted two facts: 1) that the uniformed Russian army was noticeably better drilled, better equipped than it was a year ago; 2) that cartoons and effigies...
...Print Collectors, tiny painting by Honoré Daumier, igth Century French satirist; from a Daumier-Corot exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Value: $35,000. Owner: Josef Stransky, onetime conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Said he: "It is like losing one of the family...
Left alone in the field (save for the visits of Manhattan's Metropolitan) the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company opened its season with a sold-out house and a smart list of boxholders which included names like Curtis, Biddle, Lorimer and Pianist Josef Hofmann. Aïda was the first opera with Italian Tenor Aroldo Lindi, Soprano Anne Roselle, Contralto Cyrena Van Gordon, Conductor Emil Mlynarski. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed last week with Mary Garden again casting her curious spell as the pale, questioning little juggler, Baritone Chief Caupolican (a South American Indian) as the kindly, understanding monk...
...occurred last week. On the Paris came Ernest Schelling, Jose Iturbi, Ignace Jan Paderewski; on the Columbus, Walter Gieseking; on the Mauretania, Alexander Brailowsky. Good also for grapes, apples and upland game birds, this year will be a pianists' year in the U. S. Already scheduled for recitals are Josef Hofmann, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Italian Carlo Zecchi will make his U. S. debut in January. But the three men sure to attract greatest attention, sure to be the most newsworthy, are Paderewski, Iturbi, Gieseking...