Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel pleasantly dreamy at the mere mention of An der Schonen Blauen Donau, to lovers of the bustled, candlelit atmosphere of Die Fledermaus and the sprightly, stagily Hungarian Gypsy Baron, there was sadness in the news last week that the Johann-Strauss-Theater in Vienna had gone bankrupt. Not because of any association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz...
...indictment for income tax evasion for which he may receive 32 years in prison and a fine of $80.000 (TIME, June 15), he and 68 henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture and transportation of beer for beverage purposes in the Chicago area on a large scale." Brought to light were 5.000 separate offenses, the unit of manufacture for each offense being one 1,500 gal. vat of beer, the unit...
...year and a half ago, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published a comprehensive Bulletin 23 which contained specific mention of those U. S. colleges which hired their football players. Last week the Carnegie Foundation published Bulletin 26 on sport, less sensational than its predecessor, which said: 1) commercialization of athletics is diminishing at most colleges, practiced more actively than ever by a few: 2) public interest in football is waning, undergraduate enthusiasm for intramural sport increasing...
...confusion of reports that followed the press of Italy was unanimous in its condemnation of Toscanini. The maestro's friends insisted that the attack was a carefully-planned ambush. A cautious French press made no mention of the incident. Carabinieri. soldiers, detectives watched the Toscanini house in Milan; he was a prisoner; his passport was withdrawn; he would be disciplined, it was said, by Dictator Mussolini. Last week his passport was returned and it was reported that he had been guarded only because civil authorities feared further incidents...
James A. DeLacey, proprietor of Dunster House Bookshop, 20 South Street, announces the publication of a bibliography of the writings of Edwin Arlington Robinson, ex '95, prepared by Robert Johns Bulkley '32, and Lucius Beebe '27. The bibliography, which contains mention of all Robinson first editions and collector's items to date, includes more than fifty books and also establishes for the first time the status of the pirated edition of the missing canto of "Lancelot", published here under the title "Three Poems" in 1928. This is probably the rarest of all Robinson items, exceeding in scarcity even the famous...