Word: leon
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...bogie of the Soviet Union is exiled Leon Trotsky. No. 2 is "espionage." carried out by "agents of Germany and Japan" who. according to Russia's official press, "swarm the country." In yet another effort to stamp out these twin enemies, the Kremlin last week was full of the bustle of spring cleaning...
Whatever the Dewey investigation might prove in the end, there was no doubt that it had shown Leon Trotsky, for eight years an exile in Turkey, France and Norway, a disowned and virtually impotent revolutionist, to be now the most important revolutionary extremist in the world. In 1933 Trotskyist followers in Russia, seeing the gradual abandonment of all plans for the world revolution by orthodox Stalinists, asked secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle...
Back from several weeks in Mexico City, kindly, grizzled Professor John Dewey of Columbia University spoke in Manhattan last week to an audience of 3,500. His subject was the elaborate mock trial of Leon Trotsky, held in 13 sessions at Mexico City in March and April, at which Professor Dewey had presided. Object of the trial was to prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading...
Though the Metropolitan's headline singers are gone for the summer, last week's young contingent successfully presented such operas as Faust, Il Trovatore and La Bohème. In Faust pretty Hilda Burke made a pathetic, simple Marguerite, used her small voice conscientiously but not tragically. Leon Rothier, a veteran Mephistopheles, had most assurance and most art. Good-looking Donald Dickson made his Metropolitan debut as Valentine. Even nervousness could not rob him of the strong, clear baritone and fine dramatic sense that first made scouts notice him when he was a Pennsylvania steelworker...
Last winter Victor repressed a series of early jazz masterpieces, sold them as the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album. The late great Trumpet Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody through all twelve sides of the set. Two non-commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested...