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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lily Pons is our favorite singer. Her voice is of surprising beauty, and it is a delight to hear her run up and down the scale and slide long and clearly on bar E. Jeannette McDonald and Grace Moore come nowhere near the charming and unaffected little French girl who sparkles in every scene like a jewel. Add Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer, and some elegant swing by Andre Kostelanetz and you've got something, "That Girl From Paris" to be exact...
This is indeed the art of a great age. Large in scale, sombre in color, powerful in restrained emotion, it fits the themes of ancient legend...
This is said to be the first time a university has broadcast lectures on an international scale. This venture is a result of the success of the WIXAL broadcasts of the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences last September, Letters praising these broadcasts came from many part of the United States and several foreign countries...
...standard of living has declined and there is chronic shortage of individual food items under Goring's Rearmament program of "Cannon instead of Butter." There are "Strength Through Joy" vacation treats and trips for workers on a grand scale which would have seemed incredible four years ago. In Germany the Protestants, Catholics and every other religious group except the Nazi mystics have been ruthlessly trampled by the State and the Jews have been legally reduced to a sub-citizen depressed class...
...favor enough public ownership to enable the country to work out effective methods on a life-sized scale, but not so much public ownership that we shall be swamped by inefficiency before we learn how to make it effective and economical. The people have a right to actual examples of public ownership to supply a basis for coming to long-time conclusions on the subject. We should not be forced to decide by abstract theory. I disagree both with private utility men who would prevent any trial of public ownership on a large scale, and with public ownership advocates...