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...16th birthday, Princess Aurora pricks herself on a distaff and falls sound asleep. Prince Désiré goes hunting, a Fairy shows him a vision of the sleeping Princess, he dances with her still asleep. But it takes over two hours to straighten her affairs. . . . Because it is the longest ballet ever written and one of the most elaborate, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is seldom danced entire. The Philadelphia Ballet Company last week made musical history by giving the first U. S.*performance without...
...Manhattan arrived "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey from the flood area brimming with a plan to avert similar catastrophe: to straighten out the Mississippi River from Cairo, Ill. to the Gulf of Mexico, making it 600 miles long instead of the present 1,200. Crowed he: "Henry Ford is just wild about my plan...
...liquidating" its yen contracts, but Washington was perplexed and anxious because U. S. markets were badly clogged. Middle of the week the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Eigo Fukai, "explained" that the ban was only a "temporary delay," that Japanese banks were working with increased staffs to straighten the tangle. Said he: "It was necessary to stabilize the situation by slowing down unnecessary imports. In a few days exchange contracts will again be coming into the market...
...cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about the tall, strapping Dinkas, who are great fishermen, great dancers and whose custom it is to straighten their hair with cows' urine and paint their faces white...
...this was largely rumor, only General Chen knowing in what shape he had actually left Cantonese finances. To straighten these out Generalissimo Chiang did not call for the financial commission of white experts which might have been sent for a decade or more ago. Honesty in the sense that Western bankers are "honest" and efficiency in the sense that they are "efficient" is now in China the function of the Generalissimo's in-laws, the Family of Soong. Since famed Mr. T. V. Soong, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, could not be spared...