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This fall of the Olympics away from the sportsmen to the control of the politicians and statesmen, which is the result of running them on too big a scale, has reached a serious stage. When so patient and sportsmanlike a figure as Bingham can no longer associate himself with the games, it is clear that something rots and smells in the state of affairs...
...bare wooden stage of Sanders Theatre, flanked by plaster replicas of modern statesmen draped in 19th century pseudo-classical togas, was transformed into an imitation of the Athenian theatre last night as the Poet's Theatre staged the "Alcestis" of Euripides. The performance was the world premiere of a new version of the classic by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald and it is too bad that last night it was not possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity...
Meanwhile, the King-Emperor and the Realmleader entered the first of a procession of State victorias. Into the others piled Italian and German statesmen and officers. Then off all clattered, escorted by mounted cuirassiers of the ancient House of Savoy in gleaming breastplates...
Lollypop. In London and Paris, as well as in Berlin and Rome, statesmen expected bilateral pacts now to be swiftly made between France & Italy, Britain & Germany, after which they looked for the final effort to conclude a Four-Power Pact. II Duce was said to have got emotional Adolf Hitler all excited in Florence about a grandiose, perfectly vague project for "world Fascist-Nazi fraternization," this being Benito Mussolini's parting lollypop for the Führer...
Belgium's handsome young widower King Leopold III once figured in the schemes of certain statesmen anxious for a union of Belgium and The Netherlands, eager to promote it by securing the marriage of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Neither Leopold nor Juliana saw the matter in this light, but they are on the best of terms. Last week His Majesty accepted the invitation of Her Royal Highness to act as a godfather at the christening of her first child. Princess Beatrix, this week in The Hague...