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...Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then Foreign Secretary, and by the bril liant professionals of the Foreign Office whose permanent head is Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart. In a few short weeks, by cooperating closely with the then French Premier, thick-lipped and unprepossessing Pierre Laval, they had produced "The Deal" (TIME, Dec. 16) ready for signing in Paris...
...faces with staring eyes. Not long ago Mme Nijinsky showed a collection of these fancies to Drs. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Both psychoanalysts suggested that she exhibit them abroad not only as works of art but as studies in abnormal mentality. As though in reaction to the bril liant gay colors of the ballet, Painter Nijinsky uses a somber palette. Recently he has entered what Mme Nijinsky calls his Black Period. In New York to exhibit her husband's work, she explained: "He just paints dark spaces...
...last week, Serafina di Leo read and reread her congratulatory telegrams. The newspapers told her what she already knew, that her debut as Leonora (// Trovatore) the night before had been successful if not sensational, that she had deported herself with accustomed confidence, displayed a powerful voice, bril liant if sometimes hard. . . . Lazily she stretched out, turned to the comic strips...
...inherited leadership of Roosevelt & Sons from his father, James Alfred, bril liant Civil War banker. Most remembered of his financial operations was the formation of Mexican Telegraph Co. and Central & South American Telegraph Co., later merged by him into All America Cables, Inc. In 1925 he achieved a measured prominence by stoutly championing a receivership for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, permitting himself at that time one of his few essentially quotable phrases: ". . . An open wound demands attention. A scar does...
...Beginning. At 26 he began as an actor of elderly character roles. Otto Brahm, Berlin impressario, offered the youth a bril liant opportunity to play in the German capital. When the time drew near for him to leave, Reinhardt regretted his acceptance, begged to be excused from the enticements of "an uncertain career" in the great city. But Herr Brahm stood adamant on his contract rights and the young man was obliged to break away from his enchanted Salzburg...