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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizaldes are the islands' richest Spanish family. Commissioner "Mike," though born in Manila (1896), was schooled in Spain, served in the Spanish Army, still wears a military haircut. Five years ago he became a Philippine citizen to protect the family business, Elizalde & Co. Inc., a 10,000,000-peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than...
...died a year later. Many of the orchestra's best players had been deported as "enemy aliens." In turn, two more acceptable but less capable French conductors, Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, strove vainly to regain the lost ground. A strike, supported by the American Federation of Musicians, though won by the management, further depleted the orchestra's ranks. But by 1924 the Boston Symphony, recovered from its wartime jitters, was being reorganized for a comeback. Soon it was back in its old place among the finest of U.S. symphonic organizations...
...revolution of 1917 put a stop to all this. Zealous Bolsheviks liquidated Capitalist Koussevitzky's self-endowed orchestra and publishing house, offered him instead the post of Russia's musical head man. He declined, though he accepted for a time the conductorship of Petrograd's State Orchestra, where his dictatorial instincts were continually curbed by bureaucratic rules & regulations. Once officers of the GPU caught him attempting to escape to Estonia. When he did finally succeed in getting a passport to leave the country, he abandoned virtually all of his money and personal property to the Soviet Government...
...final draft (650,000 words, 1,310 pages) was published this week.* Hall Caine was not much impressed by gospel accounts of the Virgin Birth, by some of Christ's miracles, nor by all the recorded circumstances of the Resurrection. Some of his observations sound as though written from a British club window. Of 'Jesus changing water into wine at Cana he fumed: "A perfectly shocking story: I simply do not believe it." Of the last chapter of John, with its story of the disciples fishing, and its "inept" last verse,† Hall Caine snorted: "Is there...
...vital, not with the vitality of topical social problems but with the vitality which seems to make a picture alive. . . ." Thus some-what unnecessarily announcing himself as a non-social painter, Victor de Pauw displayed 30 paintings at the Charles Morgan Gallery. Most were good & alive, though many were over facile. A great source of vitality to Artist de Pauw: circuses, and especially clowns. Unlike his great predecessor in this field, Toulouse-Lautrec (see below), Artist de Pauw composes better than he draws...