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...That obedient arm of Josef Stalin's foreign policy, the U. S. Communist Party, is so enthusiastic about Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy that Earl Browder described the U. S. line of defense in the New Republic last week as "Manila, Honolulu and Nome." Indeed, the No. 1 U.S. Communist let down his hair to the extent of declaring that only courageous action on the part of the President could save from catastrophe ''our country and all the capitalist world...
...picture writing of his people. His drawing is western, modeled painstakingly after the art in U. S. magazines lent him by white settlers. Artist Kent is far from being Twok's first patron. Credit chiefly belongs to a Mrs. Oliver Weaver, wife of a public utilities executive in Nome, who has been circulating and selling original Twoks for several years...
...performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett was more imaginative as her hunchback father, used his strong baritone with an accuracy that seemed almost reproving...
...Thanksgiving Day turkey soared to 75? per lb:, 30? above normal. Cities like Nome, Fairbanks and Ketchikan, which lay in a winter's stores in advance, were unworried. But Cordova was rationing condensed milk, six cans to a customer...
...Composer Willson was first mindful of the pioneers who settled the city, then of the Great Fire (i. e. earthquake) with its ruins & ashes, then of "the almost childish delight of a people who have a continental love for artistic pursuits." In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain. In the finale he loudly attempted to glorify modern engineering, the skyscrapers and the great new bridge over San Francisco...