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...Leningrad this system has already been applied to several streets. Last year buildings on both sides of the Nevski Prospect (No. 1 Tsarist boulevard) were painted. The former palace of Grand Duke Dmitri* was daubed brilliant red with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...
Last June Albert Coates got a notable job: the general music directorship of the United Philharmonic Orchestras of the U. S. S. R. and musical directorship of the opera houses of Moscow and Leningrad. Last year Conductor Coates had plenty to do; he might conduct a Boris Godounov in Moscow one night, hurry off to rehearse in Leningrad the next morning. Next year he will be even busier. Besides working with the excellent orchestras and operas of Russia's two chief cities, he must improve the mediocre ones at Tiflis, Baku, Kiev, Kharkov, Svendlovsk, Stalingrad and possibly others...
Vienna is the most suicidal city on earth?58 per 100,000 (1930 figures). Next rank Hamburg 51.1, Shanghai (foreign settlement) 46.6, Berlin 42.2, Brussels 40.9. Havana 38.3, Budapest 35.7, Leningrad 35.3, Warsaw...
...sight of Dictator Stalin, who wore a Red Army cap and bluish grey "semimilitary jacket" (said Moscow papers), each new group of workers burst into "spontaneous cheers." Just at dusk the parade's tail was brought up by a Soviet dirigible which had flown during the day from Leningrad to Moscow...
Voltaire's biography will be the subject that Dr. Norman Lewis Torrey '15, now assistant professor of French at Yale, intends to work on during the period. He will also do research in the Public Library at Leningrad...