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Winter is the usual season for im portant opera but California takes hers in the autumn when famed singers are available. San Francisco and Los Angeles have separate sponsoring associations but the artists headed by Italian Conductor Gaetano Merola are practically the same. San Francisco hears them first, gives her verdict (TIME, Sept. 22). Then, as last week, they move on to the rival city...
...increased the endowment to a total of $12,500,000, announced the appointment of Mr. Hofmann as director. Students at the Curtis Institute are fortunate. They pay no fees, are given pianos and instruments, free rent, free attendance at Philadelphia Orchestra con certs, Metropolitan Opera, and other im portant musical events, summer sojourns here or in Europe on the advice of the faculty, financial assistance in setting out on professional careers. Last week Mrs. Bok revealed a further extension of activity. She announced that the Institute had affiliated with the Phila delphia Grand Opera Company to provide the city with...
...they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons and contrasts were inevitable. For example: Eva Le Galliénne's figure is lissom; it permits her to play Peter Pan. It is im portant and eloquent in the theatre; she and her Civic Repertory Theatre en able the penurious to see good plays, no claptrap. Of more importance in the specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften the cruelty of the character. She can wear with grace the smock...
...Infantry and was made its Colonel, only to resign and enlist as a private in the Artillery Corps of the Regular Army where he remained until the end of the War. The job of Solicitor General consists chiefly in representing the Government before the courts in certain more im- portant cases. The Solicitor General makes frequent appearances before the Supreme Court. When Mr. Mitchell went before the court last week, he scanned the faces of nine Justices and certainly recognized one of them-the face of Mr. Pierce Butler of Minnesota- certainly - because Mr. Pierce Butler before he was raised...
Since the 'downfall of the Kerensky Government in 1917, M. Rakovsky has played an important role in Bolshevik affairs. He has been on several im portant diplomatic missions and since 1919, with one break, he has been chair man of the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars...