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...have anything to do with the election. Candidates of the Government party only were allowed to appear on the voting list. Voting was not by secret ballot but orally, before a scowling election board. Since it is against the law to refuse to vote in Jugoslavia, the Govern-ment was returned to power almost unanimously. Even so, members of the opposition thought of a way to register a protest. Election day was Sunday. They refused to go to church...
...dance of Richard Strauss and an Oriental Dance Balinese by Wells Hively ; Mr. Shawn in dances to four oldtime U. S. songs and a fantastic Frohsinn (Cheerfulness) to music of Paul Linke. Together they danced a charming Idyll by Roy Stoughton. Schoolchildren danced a "visualization" of the first move ment of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony: a "synchoric orchestra" of dancers which was meant to parallel the instrumentation of the score. Then Miss St. Denis, surrounded by young men from the West Side Y. M. C. A., appeared as "The Prophetess" in a dance-drama to the music of "Mars...
...banker with the Mephistophelian beard, Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England, wrote a private letter to Governor Clément Moret of the Bank of France several months...
...Lost World (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925), and from other life-explaining sources, went to Mr. Darrow and said: "I understand that ever since the Scopes trial you've wanted to put forward a motion picture to educate the people to your contentions about Evolution." An arrange ment was made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week...
...Other governmental activities which could logically be transferred to the Secretary of Transportation would include the Alaska R. R. (from Interior Department), civil aeronautics, steamboat inspection, lighthouses and navigation (from the Commerce Department), river and harbor development, the Mississippi barge line and the Panama Canal (from the War Depart-ment), the U. S. merchant fleet (from the Shipping Board...