Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco found its home talent gratifying. For brevity's sake Conductor Dobrowen had omitted the first movement but young Alexander Fried, San Francisco's most level-headed critic (Chronicle), found that the slow second movement had "emotional nobility" in spite of the instrumentation's technical shortcomings, that its jazzy third movement has "as just a place in a Yankee Symphony of this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco...
...Since the world market price of silver has been around 43? an ounce, the proclamation will give a bonus of about 21? an ounce to silver producers, or about $5,000,000 a year at present rates of production; $12,000,000 at the 1929 level. Chief beneficiaries of this bonus will be the big U. S. silver producers...
...Since the Mint will pay 64 1/2? an ounce only for silver newly mined in the U. S., the world price of silver will not necessarily rise to that level, will continue to be fixed by supply & demand. The proclamation will, however, remove 24,000,000 ounces (the U. S. quota) from world supply. This is about 20% of world production. This will undoubtedly tend to raise the world price but if private hoards of silver begin to leave India and China (which hold 600,000,000 oz.) or if Manhattan's silver speculators decide to dump their...
...exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne's excellent stage adaptation for her Civic Repertory Theatre. When Alice in Wonderland was released this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout the land. Paramount could well feel that it had done its level best to make Christmas bright and merry for millions of youngsters. Who was to play Alice was Paramount's Problem No. 1. Charles Laughton, not altogether facetiously, suggested that Jean Harlow would make an ideal Carroll heroine. Paramount settled the matter by means of a '"contest" in which...
...Simonds-Harper ($1). When (there is no ''if" in Prophet Simonds' vocabulary) the next great European war breaks out, what is the U. S. going to do about it? In this incisive little book (82 pp.) a keenly realistic observer of international affairs does his high-level best to prove that war is imminent, inevitable, that the U. S. will be in it. Observer Simonds does not believe in fairies, the Kellogg Pact or the League of Nations. He views the present state of the world with grim alarm but thinks an open eye better than...