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Since last November conductors at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony have included an Englishman, a Russian, a Rumanian and a Mexican (TIME. Nov. 16). Last week.a Pole, Artur Rodzinski, stepped up to finish out the last eight weeks of a season which Philharmonic devotees consider has almost compensated by its variety for the absence of Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Next season, with John Barbirolli on the podium throughout, promises to be sound and satisfying but not eventful...
Jews have justly complained for decades that they never have been able to get justice in hard-boiled little Rumania. Last week the fat was in the fire as His Majesty Carol II behaved again not like a Rumanian but like an infatuated Gentile with a fascinating Jewish friend, Mme Magda Lupescu...
...German, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Portuguese ministers to the Rumanian Court last week attended the funeral of two members of the anti-Semitic Rumanian Iron Guard killed in Spain in action under the White standard. It seemed to these five experienced diplomats that Carol II, Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini, Smigly-Rydz of Poland and Salazar of Portugal all want the Spanish war to end in Red defeat, and they were probably right, but in attending the Iron Guard funeral last week they had momentarily forgotten Mme. Lupescu-a dangerous thing to do in Bucharest...
...King Carol, strutted bravely at Bucharest, an amazing Balkan bantam who had tut-tutted Der Führer and Il Duce. Next came crash!-and CRASH!-the replies of Berlin and Rome. The angry Dictators in almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were inclined to admit that last week she had "perhaps overreached...
...broadly in the same dogmas were the other Orthodox Churches of Europe and Asia Minor. Rumania, with 11,000,000 Orthodox, has the largest and most influential church. To Bucharest two summers ago were invited a party of Anglican bishops and theologians, to thresh out theological problems with the Rumanians. After agreeing that Anglican orders are valid, the Rumanian Orthodox requested the Church of England formally to declare its desire for intercommunion...