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...third failure, the assembled statesmen knew, would be catastrophic for League prestige. To prevent failure two Great Powers sent bigger men. Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, replaced her former delegate, Viscount Cecil who last week took a back seat. For the U. S. famed Prentiss Gilbert, who sat with the Council in Geneva not daring to open his mouth, did not sit. Instead last week Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes opened and shut his resounding mouth in a nearby Paris hotel, represented the U. S. so potently that Council statesmen gathered in his suite for what almost...
...rang up the U. S. Consulate at Geneva. Ruminating over the radio telephone with Consul General Prentiss Gilbert, he authorized him to attend Council sessions on the Sino-Japanese crisis, if invited. That was enough for the Master Parliamentarian...
...monument to the efforts and foresight of two people: to Russian Nikolai Sokoloff, only conductor the Orchestra has had, who at last week's dignified housewarming gave a particularly eloquent reading of Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some $900,000; and to President John Long Severance...
...Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said...
...Seattle the Orchestra has followed the example of Cleveland, chosen for its new manager a woman, Bertha M. Stryker, energetic worker in the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. (Cleveland's capable orchestra manager is Adella Prentiss Hughes.) Karl Krueger, young Viennese conductor who took over the Seattle Orchestra at the time of its reorganization in 1926, again has sole command...