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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hissing politely, hat in hand, hundreds of worried Japanese citizens stopped everyone who looked to them like a U. S. citizen on the streets of Tokyo last week to offer their personal apologies for the sinking of the U. S. gunboat Panay (TIME, Dec. 20). This latest outburst of runaway Japanese militarism gave the Japanese public a sudden revealing picture of the irresponsibility of Japanese officers in China, and threatened to do the one thing that intelligent Japanese statesmen fear-drive the U. S. to take forceful action...
Rumanian election late this month. The chief of the French General Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin. recently visited Rumania to bring up to date the technical details of France's military alliance with Hohenzollern Carol's Kingdom. M. Delbos was insured a welcome because he came to offer French capital to build a Rumanian factory which will turn out war tanks, and to arrange that Rumanian crude oil and gasoline will be accepted by Paris in payment for fine new artillery, additional tanks to be supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos...
Appearing as soloist with the Boston Symphony orchestra in their regular week-end concerts, Mr. Heifltz will offer the first presentation in America of Serge Prokofleff's Second Violin Concerto. This work was originally performed in Madrid in 1935, the year of its composition...
...approach to the literary aspect of the problem is conditioned by the fact that the foreign language departments offer numerous courses in the drama of each of the foreign countries. If, then, a language requirement in French and German were established for those wishing to concentrate in comparative drama, no courses in English would have to be added to the field of Comparative Literature, and concentrators in the drama would be enabled to read foreign plays in the original tongue. So, as a solution to the literary aspect of the problem, a two-year language requirement in both French...
...Department would do well to offer a series of courses in the History and practical creation of stage settings for those of artistic inclination who are interested in the drama. The fact that a man took two or three of these courses need not interfere with his ability to pass the General Examination in Fine Arts, which are primarily historical, if such studies were offered as purely extra or related work, aside from the regular historical courses now given in the department. Concentration in the artistic phase of the drama need not be allowed, provided that men interested in stage...