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Last week Arthur Ruhl,* famed European correspondent, cabled to The New York Herald Tribune a series of significant despatches from Riga, Latvia. Carefully Correspondent Ruhl made clear that his intention was to provide a general picture of Soviet Russia uncluttered by statistics. In a word, he found business and industrial conditions reviving on an apparently firm basis; social and religious affairs functioning with but little friction in new channels; and Governmental dictatorship still absolute...
...Moscow, via the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau, the report that Maria Kurenko, ex-criminal-law-student, will put all comers out of the running when she arrives in the U. S. in November. She has paved her way with reports of unbridled enthusiasms evoked by her appearances in Kharkov, Moscow, Riga, Helsingfors, Paris. Her birthplace is Tomsk, Siberia...
...artists directly obtained the permission of the Russian Commissariat of Education on the understanding that the Russian Red Cross was to receive 10% of the profits. Thereupon, the artists set out from Moscow, accompanied by Alexander I. Bukhareff, of the Commissariat of Education. But the American Consul at Riga refused to visé the passport of the last named gentleman, so the artists, with 900 pictures, continued unchaperoned...
...proceeded from Rubens' hand. One of them was a head of Seneca, now belonging to the British Museum. It was at first thought that the Seneca acquired by the city of Antwerp was the famous etching, but subsequent brief despatches indicate that it is a painting discovered at Riga. The price paid was only...
...police of Riga had the keys when on a recent Sunday Lettish and German people turned up for service. Strong detachments of armed police guarded the Church. The Germans held their service in the cemetery. The Letts sang hymns in front of the police station...