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...Chicago Civic Opera Company, it presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos, almost made the difficult Ginevra role take on the semblance of life and opera. Not less effective...
...Mellon wants the surplus to be credited to income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that we do not commit our Government to an unsound fiscal policy for the future should not prevent the Government treating its taxpayers fairly in any particular year in which Government revenues are overabundant. I believe in debt reduction along the program settled after the War, but I do not believe in the payment of a public debt to the undue...
...author, Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, declares that much physical ill comes from false thinking--a thesis that he supports with convincing examples. He predicts that the next great task of medicine will be to combat the unsound beliefs that subtly but surely undermine health...
...tariffs have been, and particularly to American prosperity. It would obviously be very advantageous to American industry if European tariff walls ceased to interfere with "peaceful economic penetration." The American bankers have very cleverly killed two birds with one stone. They point out to Europe that tariffs are economically unsound and destroy prosperity, while at the same time they hope to open a new field to an American Industry protected from reprisal by a tariff that is different...
Last week the Premier's would-be-assassin, the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of Baron Ashbourne, known since childhood by her family to have been of unsound mind but never restrained by them, was pronounced by the Italian alienists, "a dangerous homicidal paranoiac who should be permanently held in an insane asylum...