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...counsel to the pre-War Pujo money trust investigation, had spoken of the bill's original draft as "impossible, impracticable." Testifying before the Senate Committee last week, the aging attorney criticized many provisions as deflationary and indiscriminate, found numerous glaring omissions. Roundly he denounced a fixed formula for margin requirements, urged instead discretionary power in the hands of the central credit body, the Federal Reserve Board. The Senators and their counsel, Ferdinand Pecora, were impressed...
...story centers around the life of the Waltz King, and more particularly with the creation of one of his most famous operas, "Die Fliedermaus." In unaffected and charming manner the director has caught the gayety of pre-war Vienna, and has woven into the operetta the love and laughter and music of those carefree days...
...great eyewitness reporter, Duranty nevertheless has his purple passages. Thus he describes Moscow's homeless children (1925) : "For the past three years one of their chief strongholds has been the 'Catacombs,' as Moscow calls an acre-wide range of cellars under an enormous unfinished pre-War building right in the center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole...
...Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner enthusiasts grew up, to learn that the operas are not dull because they are long, that the Ring's complicated plot and hundred-odd motifs are well worth studying since they build up into such a colossal whole...
Elinor Norton is a poor little rich girl of the pre-War period. Her mother's plans for her do not include marriage to Carroll, summer neighbor who tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic...