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Fair, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 19, daughter of fair, blue-eyed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, after a venIn Oslo, the Quisling Government ordered burned all books by Nobel Prize Novelist Sigrid Undset, who is now in the U. S. Grounds: her works (chronicling Norway's rich medieval past) were not national...
...Hailed as one of America's best is symphonic orchestra created by Leopold Stokowski from: 1. Young American boys and girls. 2. Persons without formal musical training. 3. Southern Negroes. 4. European refugees. 5. Convicts...
Nine months later, when the war was one month old, Remains was in Brussels trying to get King Leopold to agree to staff consultations with the Allies, to promise to call for aid the minute either The Netherlands or Belgium was invaded. By then he was growing suspicious of De Man, King Leopold's closest adviser. De Man let him down, he says, by insisting on a great deal of hocuspocus, including a letter from Daladier to Leopold, which Romains tried to get. But Daladier let him down...
Jules Romains' estimate of why Leopold and De Man quit the Allies last May could serve also as an estimate of the futility of such machinations as Romains': "The King and he tried to lie to themselves, until the last minute, so as not to see that the war we were fighting . . was their war. When the last minute came, with its crashing eloquence, they found themselves bound to consent to war, but they consented reluctantly and lay ready at the first occasion to betray it. For when they betrayed their Allies they gave themselves the excuse that...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...