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Gemini. The Class of 1930 will vote not to hold a reunion, with one Alumni Association officer explaining, "Their class spirit just never seemed to jell." The liquor, already purchased, will be donated to the New York Mirror's list of the 100 seediest families...
...TIME, Sept. 27). Unfortunately for Senhor Villa-Lobos, Magdalena seems like its librettists' first encounter with Broadway. They have loaded their book with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the tropics and the Balkans. The only thing more incomprehensible than the plot is the notion that any one could follow it. It is a mess of pagan rites, political wrongs, an opera bouffe general (Hugo Haas), vociferous emerald miners, and the love of a bus driver (John Raitt) for a high-born...
British situation was the reverse. Great Britain came out of World War I with a group of battle-scarred veterans of propaganda and a world-wide reputation for amazing cleverness in molding public opinion. For many a post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...
Joyously the Latin Quarter students, who make it a prankish point to always use fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...