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...Galleria watched La Scala under a woman's direction for more than a year. Some finally lent grudging approval. But most did not. Jealously they were satisfied last week, for Anita Colombo, first female director of the old opera, had resigned. The dove was going to fly away...
Jugoslavia is one of France's firmest allies, one of her greatest debtors. Last May French bankers lent Jugoslavia $42,000,000. Within the past two or three months King Alexander has sought another loan. French bankers, listening to promptings from the Quai d'Orsay. replied that the efficacy of the large, well-paid Jugoslavian army was seriously damaged by Croat and Slovene plottings, that the dictatorship must be ended in order to bring these recalcitrants into line before the money bags jingled again. President Thomas Masaryk and Foreign Minister Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, another of France...
...searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving that its sentimentalities would be more effective if they were subdued, disguised them carefully and was terse in scenes which might have been heavily dramatic. Director Whale is sup posed to be the quietest megaphone artist...
...London, in 1885. A fellow of University College in London and a graduate of Oxford, he has taught English & History at Oxford and now, as Matthew Arnold did in 1851, holds an appointment as one of His Majesty's inspectors at the Board of Education. In 1924, he was lent by the Board of Education to investigate and report on the educational system of Egypt and the Sudan. Hitherto a better known educationalist than writer, he has published three volumes of verse; edited, in 1912, The Works of Thomas Deloney. Albert Grope is the September selection of the Book League...
Even so the Byng report and the Clydesdale holdup were enough for police chiefs to plan a revolutionary move, the arming of London's bobbies. Ever since their organizer, Sir Robert Peel, lent his nickname to the London Police, they have carried nothing more formidable than a short wooden truncheon. Last week the tradition of the incorruptible, unarmed British policeman (like the tradition of the invulnerable Bank of England) trembled in the balance. Twenty-five bobbies were up on charges of accepting bribes from publicans, bookmakers, and tradespeople...