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...week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe trio, until the scores were as authentic as he could make...
Satie: Gymnopédie Nos. I & 2. (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting: Victor). French musical impressionism had three inventors: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Ernest Fanelli. Today only Debussy is remembered as a front ranker. But these two little pieces, orchestrated by Debussy, are as deft and fresh as Seurat water colors...
Rube adjusted himself quickly to his new profession. His first cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt holding a stopwatch over Industry struggling to escape from a straitjacket. Caption: EVEN HOUDINI COULDN'T DO THIS ONE. Nos. 2 and 3 were equally unfunny, but Rube promised his fans that the Sun would soon publish his design for an apparatus to collect War debts...
...Points Nos. 1 & 2 were said to be actively urged by Adolf Hitler, who recently sent secret proposals to Paris after a four-hour conference at Berchtesgaden with the retiring French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet, who now goes to Rome. At No. 10 Downing Street it has been accepted for some time that colonial territory must be given Germany, somehow or other, and Paris hopes with London to get, in exchange, pacts intended for "humanizing warfare," together with German and Italian cooperation in measures to remove some of the present restrictions on world trade...
...Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi produced tiny, short-lived quantities of ekarhenium and ekaosmium (Nos. 93 and 94) by bombarding uranium with neutrons. These new substances were entirely synthetic, however, like the many synthetic, artificially radioactive elements which physicists have brought to birth by similar bombardments (TIME...