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When Carlos Chavez began to write music he was barely out of his teens. A seventh child, he was born near Mexico City in 1899, first studied piano with his brother Manuel, later with teachers like Asuncion Parra and Pedro Ogazón. At 22, Chavez met José Vasconcelos, the radical Secretary of Education who hired Rivera to paint the famous murals in his Secretariat. Vasconcelos gave Chavez the commission for his first ballet, The New Fire...
Absentees-Still living is Cardinal Dougherty's oldtime adversary Gregorio Aglipay, whose Independent Church now claims 4,000,000 members, is generally credited with about 1,000,000. Two years ago Aglipay did almost as well as Aguinaldo in the Presidential campaign in which Manuel Quezon swamped them both. Before the Eucharistic Congress opened, Aglipay sought an injunction to restrain the Commonwealth from issuing postage stamps commemorating the Congress. Failing, he kept out of sight last week and other Aglipayans did nothing to mar the pious occasion. Absent also, for apparently mixed reasons, was President Quezon. Four years...
...Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince...
...European Day with the following topics and speakers: At 10:30 Donald C. McKay, Instructor is History at Harvard, speaks on the subject "Struggle for Influence in the Mediterranean: England, France, Italy and Spain." "Social Strife in Spain" will follow at 11:30, the lecturer being Dr. Frank Edward Manuel, recently returned from Spain, where he made a study of labor adn other social problems...
News from Spain itself last week featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...