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...freakish operatic frame work. Christopher Columbus was written by two famed Frenchmen, by Poet Paul Claudel, Ambassador to the U. S., and Composer Darius Milhaud. Milhaud is also a onetime diplomat. Wartime Paris was a poor hunting-ground for young musicians. Many were forced to other means of livelihood and Milhaud, a prize Conservatory graduate, went to Brazil in 1917 as attaché to the French legation there. In two years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even then Milhaud stood apart. Some professed to find...
...heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely from teaching-from 1920 to 1925 as director at the Cleveland Institute of Music, since then at the San Francisco Conservatory. Now, thanks to the Patrons Stern, his time will be more free for creative work. Last week the Stern heirs also gave...
Nicholas Murray Butler,--"The presence of the so-called amendment to the Constitution will prove to be but the beginning of a complete revolution in American form of government. The amendment has made liquor traffic the preferred means of gaining livelihood and has extended it over parts of the nation from which it had practically disappeared. It has enormously increased in profits and has ostentatiously freed it of all tax. There is no difficulty whatever in dealing with grave social problems which grow out of liquor traffic. The Scandinavian countries and Quebec have shown how this can be done wisely...
...Marveled at the silence of female M. P.'s after Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...
...work because of the new sound films (TIME, May 27, Aug. 19). Interviewed last week, Joseph Nicholas Weber, the Federation's president, estimated the jobless at 10,000. His Federation will spend as much as $500,000 to warn the public that Culture, as well as the livelihood of musicians, is threatened. He insisted: "We are not trying to hinder the development of any industry...