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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispatches, was perhaps doing his personal best to encourage Britain and France, discourage Germany, Russia and Italy with regard to the efforts of these five states last week in Spain's "Little World War," as diplomats were now calling it. During the week journalists of the French Radical Popular Front, which supports the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, launched daily rumors that German troops were arriving in Morocco at Ceuta, only 14 miles across the Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous...
Greatest of Russian short-story writers -his adherents say, greatest in the world -Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is principally known to the U. S. as the author of one play, The Cherry Orchard.* Never so popular as Maupassant, and overshadowed today by such compatriots as Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, Chekhov had a bright day in his own lifetime (1860-1904), will no doubt re-emerge in the future. His comparatively few U. S. and English readers have generally found Chekhov, even in translation, an unforgettable experience...
Unfortunately, this worthy offering coincides on Saturday afternoon with another excellent recital, that of the popular English pianist Myra Hese. Her varied program includes a Sarabande, Minuet, and Air by Purcell, Schubert's Sonata Opus 143, Schumaun's "Papillons", and Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonats. The latter is one of her particular triumphs...
...Lines is proud of many things-that it is the oldest U. S. airline; that it flies more passenger plane-miles and traffic ton-miles than any other airline; that it makes money. Not the least of United's prides has been its record on its most popular run-the 363 miles between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since acquiring twin-motored transports seven years ago. United has flown as many as 30 planes a day over this mountainous, two-hour route with a reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York and Philadelphia. Pacific...
...this and the following reviews of popular records the column will be divided into reviews of dance and jazz pieces. Each disc will be judged according to the standards of its group. The system of marking is: *poor, **fair, ***good, ****excellent...