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Throughout the Soviet Union it is a grim jest to say that neither the Voice of God nor that of the People can be heard above the silence of Comrade Josef Stalin. Always shabbily dressed, the Dictator prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central...
There were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming...
Marriage Announced. Josef Casimir Hofmann, 52, famed pianist, head of the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) , to one Betty Short, 21. They were married four years ago, following his divorce from Mrs. Marie Corcoran Eustis Hofmann and have a son, Anton...
Harold Bauer Josef Lhevinne...
Still more interesting is the fact that a correspondent with the known prestige of Miss Thompson seemingly could not obtain interviews with the high officials of the Soviet State, whereas Publicist Lee appears to have carried Rockefeller or perhaps Harriman credentials which opened every door except that of Comrade Josef Stalin, the dour, seclusive Soviet Dictator who is never interviewed...