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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars. . . . The challenge has not come from us. But since it has come, we accept...
...clownish Reynolds (see p. 16), and Henry Cabot Lodge II, bright but time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund or inept: old Lewis of Illinois, heavy Barkley of Kentucky, thick-tongued Pittman of Nevada, bumbling McKellar of Tennessee...
...Guild). Biblical narratives have a way of being made into "plays" and coming out Biblical narratives. Jeremiah illustrates the jinx. When Zweig wrote it, as an Austrian pacifist in 1916, Jeremiah's thundering against Israel's war of conquest had tremendous timeliness. It might have tremendous usefulness today if it could be produced in Fascist countries. But simply as a play it is ponderous, labored, rhetorical. For the glow of Biblical diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage mobs who jabber and shriek. Music caterwauls...
...Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank Jeremiah Black, an old timer...
...Today Venetian-born Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Jewels of the Madonna, Secret of Susanne, etc.) rates as one of the most successful of Italian opera composers. Unlike most of his lugubrious colleagues, Composer Wolf-Ferrari has devoted most of his time to operas with comic texts. Because Italians had greeted his first opera (Cenerentola) with catcalls and cabbages, Composer Wolf-Ferrari got most of his later works firsted outside Italy. But last week Milanese operagoers had a chance to chortle over a Wolf-Ferrari first. The new opera: La Nina Boba (The Stupid Girl), based on an old Spanish comedy...