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...youthful Conductor Barzin produced smooth, energetic interpretations of a program scarcely calculated to arouse enthusiasm. He is partial to his contemporaries, likes to balance comparable works by modern Europeans and Americans. His audiences at the Stadium heard seven U. S. composers, including three New Yorkers, Philip James (Overture in Olden Style on French Noels), Robert Braine (S. O. S.), Deems Taylor (Through the Looking Glass). Without frills, Barzin directs in a kinetic physical style, occasionally threatens to get ahead of his orchestra in timing. But some critics found the concerts directed by him the best the Stadium has heard this...
...Latest pictures: Mickey's Melodrama (based on Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Ye Olden Days (based on When Knighthood was in Flower). Coming: Mail Pilot. †Last week the city fathers of Worcester, Mass, announced an even greater salute to Mickey Mouse. May 12 will be Mickey Mouse Day in Worcester. On that day a little street built in front of the Worcester City Hall will be named Mickcv Mouse Street...
There is no specific cure for thallium poisoning. But J. C. Munch of Glen Olden, Pa., who last year made a report on the "Pharmacology of Thallium and Its Use in Rodent Control" for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, found pilocarpine helpful. Philocarpine, an active poison from the tropical American jaborandi shrub, stimulates many of the physiological activities which thallium destroys. It causes saliva and urine to flow, hair to grow. Mr. Munch telegraphed instructions to California on how to use the drug, took a plane to administer it himself...
...Author. Lion Feuchtwanger, 46, a Jew, was born in Munich, lives in Berlin, made his reputation by a book about Bavaria's olden times (Power). Though he has never been in the U. S. he has written some satirical verse about it (Pep). He worked three years on Success, was glad to hear it had been chosen by the Literary Guild for November, helped his wife into his U. S. motor, set out for a tour of warmer countries, will not be back for more than a year. Other books: The Ugly Duchess, Two Anglo-Saxon Plays...
Thou, America, enshrined, In ev'ry patriot soul, To olden greeds and hatreds blind, In unity thy strength shall bind The nations that they find In brotherhood their goal...