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America should be grateful to Mr. Balieff for the new and exciting form of entertainment he has brought to enliven our none-too-lively stage. It is said that in Russia, an American negro minstrel show has been enjoying as much popularity with Russian audiences as have the Russian players...
As for his political importance, that was well summed up in 1922, since when it has not changed. Wax figures of certain internationally known people were auctioned in Berlin. The ex-Kaiser fetched 15,000 marks; Poincaré, 10,050 marks; Joffre, 600 marks; Kerensky, 1 paper ruble.*
*The ruble was at the date quoted at a figure far below the mark.
"The mark cannot come back to normal value for generations", said Mr. John Mez, correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung at the Washington Conference on Armament and a member of the faculty at the University of Heidelberg, when interviewed recently on the economic condition of Germany by a CRIMSON reporter. "The...
The German mark goes galloping down, and has now passed the point of 5,000 for a dollar. At its present rate it must soon overtake the Russian ruble hitherto the unquestioned leader in the progress toward infinite nonentity.