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...special train to Paris the Premier described these obligations as "audacious measures of rapprochement with Germany." His first act in the Capital, apart from the necessary call of respect on President Paul Doumer, was to get in touch with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch. As fast as possible the two statesmen will elaborate plans for Germany to take the "initiative" toward an extension of the Hoover One-Year Moratorium or some actual cancellation of Reparations and War Debts which President Hoover and Premier Laval agreed Germany must take (TIME, June 29). "President Hoover stressed and I agree," declared bubbling, vigorous...
Several concerts passed this autumn in which Conductor Leopold Stokowski did not once undertake to discipline his Philadelphia Orchestra subscribers. One of his concerts last week championed ultra-modern composers, who always seem to send Conductor Stokowski into a highly sensitive state. Last week was no exception. During the curious sounds listed as a Symphony for Small Orchestra by Anton Webern, someone sneezed. Coughs and chuckles were instantly let loose. But Conductor Stokowski did not stay to hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence...
...announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...
...With his $25,000 Guarnerius violin tucked cosily beneath his arm, Violinist Harry Braun, 22, walked down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one night last week. Protege of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and of Lieut. Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, pupil of the late great Leopold Auer, he was given his violin by Philanthropist August Heckscher. He was to play on it at his Carnegie Hall debut in January. As Violinist Braun crossed Fifth Avenue a truck came lumbering along. He dodged. The violin case slithered from under his arm, landed squarely in the truck's path...
...Bryan was right!" cried he. "Bryan was merely ahead of his time." Other Britons taking these cues, there was soon in full swing last week what might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy called...