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...diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio frowned, grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish, beamed with vacuous amiability. There was not much clarification in the session, although it was Cárdenas' farewell address to his troubled nation. And in farewell he placed his official blessing on General Manuel Avila Camacho as his successor...
...undynamic quality of the large but precise limbs, there is an unearthy, lustless feeling of the abstract in the painting. The position of the bodies, the obvious difference in type between the women, and the highly successful use of color, lead one to believe that far from being vacuous, the painting is an excellent expression of what can be called "otherworldliness." We are faced with an unreal, but somehow true work...
...Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope that these variations are above the level of some piano works and a vacuous suite for Violoncello alone by this composer which we have heard recently. Of course, this is an unfair comment, for Reger, according to many critics, has written some excellent works, and this might well be one of them...
...trouble with banks is that they all have vacuous names, stone fronts, impenetrable vaults, courteous tellers, identical services. In Pasadena, Calif, the president of First Trust & Savings Bank (assets: $16,331,000), tall, easy, white-haired James S. (for Smellie) MacDonnell, now 62, long ago found a way to kick his bank into the public eye. In 1917, as cashier, he won local fame by writing persuasive ads for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. Since then, as president, he has sporadically taken advertising space in the Pasadena Post and Star News (morning and evening twins of conservative Pasadena...
...period who for some reason have not produced the consistently superior quality of work which would raise them to the very top, they have contributed much that is worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this...