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...Metropolitan Opera House hummed its loudest and busiest. Every half minute, a notable trod down a plush aisle: a social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd...
...afternoons have been in old Colorado?afternoons saturated with the eloquence of the Denver Post, loudest colloquial newspaper in North America. But better than hot air is gas?the kind that runs automobiles. That was what was on tap, free, last week in Denver...
...than a ghost of the rip-roaring West that was. The vocabulary has altered little. The barroom brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...
...Superintendent William McAndrew upon the expiration of his term in 1928. Charge: he was not a "home town man." Slogan: "Chicago jobs for Chicagoans." Mayor Dever mentioned "acquaintance with the local atmosphere" as desirable in the occupant of Dr. McAndrew's position. This phrase even the "home town's" loudest newspaper took to mean sympathy for politicians; respect for a federation of querulous teachers led by one Margaret Haley and a "not too sensitive, so to speak . . . olfactory nerve...
...order that they may attend Bible classes elsewhere but on school time; and what with new anti-Evolution bills coming up in Arkansas and other state legislatureshow far the Fundamentalist determination to reform the country extends. News from Atlanta, Ga., contained a hint of notable latitude. There the loudest speaker of all Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter (TIME, Feb. 1) with the paid assistance of Organizer Edward Young Clarke, who built...