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Foremost European exponent of the need for economic cooperation between nations in order to avoid another World War is young, vigorous Leopold III, Statesman-King of the Belgians. Possessed of the conviction that he (since fate has made him a King) and Belgium (since she stands strategically between the European lineups) have the responsibility of bringing about a permanent peace based on economic readjustments before it is too late, Leopold loses no opportunity to put his ideas across...
Year ago, after Britain and France had commissioned the then Premier of Belgium, scholarly Paul van Zeeland, to make his now dust-gathering study of the economic obstacles to world trade, pleased King Leopold wrote his Premier, suggested an international economic institute...
Back to the U. S. the Swedish liner Kungsholm brought Greta Louvisa Gustafsson, alias Garbo. More approachable than usual, after her summer in Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that...
...from Philadelphia last week was the symphony's other co-conductor, sad-eyed Leopold Stokowski, resting in Beverly Hills, Calif, after a less industrious but equally eventful European summer in the company of Greta Garbo. Since Great Conductor Stokowski's blow-off with the symphony directors in 1934, when he relinquished his post as music director, he and co-Conductor Otmandy have been nominal equals...
Borodin: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens, from Prince Igor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 4 sides). Stokowski at his brilliant best...