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...scattered through Russia have in the past decade gone on to technical and artistic horizons envied by many a private producer in many a capitalist country. Last week in Moscow the Soviet Fine Arts Commissariat was pleased to witness and approve an exciting 100,000-ruble operatic experiment whose spade work had been done not in the communist U. S. S. R. but in the capitalist U. S. When the performance, an extraordinary second act of Carmen, was over, the Fine Arts officials beamed and congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within...
...significant three were "old Locarno powers." Emphatically the Soviet Union was not one of the "old Locarno powers" which Mr. Baldwin hopes to get together as new Locarno powers. In other words the Prime Minister, by his deft use of "Locarno," said clearly, although not wantonly calling a spade a spade, that the British Government are now with the German Government and the Italian Government in wishing to make a Western Pact of the type desired by Adolf Hitler, to the exclusion of the Soviet Union. Mr. Baldwin's unanswerable argument for this is that it would give...
Even with the spade work done in advance by the companies, labor organizers have made little headway in Detroit itself though they have done better in the automobile plants outside the city. United Automobile Workers of America, a merger of most of the labor organizations whose internecine struggles helped contribute to Labor's failure in Detroit, claims a membership of some 60,000, which is less than one-seventh of all auto, body and parts workers, and is probably an exaggeration at that. But automobiles are on John L. Lewis' list of prospects for industrial organization...
...bandwagon of amateur football has been wobbling dangerously of late, but few of its enemies have expressed the desire to topple it over in the crude manner of the undergraduates at Charlottesville. It is one thing to call a spade a spade, but quite another to show Virginia's complete lack of respect for the other side of the question. That university should realize that the remedy for a poor football team is to concentrate upon the development of a better one and not the attitude of many American schools who desire to have "the best team money...
...meanwhile, Liberty magazine ran off 2,500,000 copies of an issue in which a spade was called a spade with regard to the King and Mrs. Simpson "the Most Envied Woman in the British Empire." Simultaneously suburbanites taking their evening trains home from Manhattan looked up to see among placard advertisements of chewing gum and corn cures a blurb reading "THE YANKEE AT KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will...