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Hypnotized by the power and harmony of his voice, fascinated by his flowing phrases, the listeners responded to the orator's least gesture and subtlest inflection. They groaned with him as he pictured the miseries of the Western people. Thunderous applause greeted his proclamation of "the cause of humanity." As he approached his climax, the crowd tensed. He named their opponents; denounced and defied them; and, challenging them to battle in a final forensic explosion, left the podium. The audience remained silent, the last words still rining in their ears: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold...
Debussy: Preludes, Book I (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 14 sides). A sheaf of Impressionist Debussy's subtlest miniatures played by his best living interpreter...
Somewhere between the fancy counterfeits of fashion pictures and the buttocky satires of Reginald Marsh is the truth about the New York Working Girl's life & looks. Of her few sympathetic interpreters in art, the subtlest last week had an exhibition at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries...
...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...
Three stories attempt more complex situations. In the subtlest of these. Return to Lavinia, a storekeeper returns from his honeymoon with a schoolteacher, reassures his mulatto housekeeper that she will always come first...