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...quite different vein are the two concerts which the Vienna Choir Boys are to give in Jordan Hall on Friday night and Saturday morning of this week. Incomparable in its field, the boy-choir sings the best in church and folk-music as well as presenting short operas. The perfection in their performances is something deserving respect and praise; one's musical experience is incomplete without having heard at least one of their programs...
Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling, Commandant of the U. S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. N. Y., sounded off in similar, though more cautious, vein: "The rise of [Italian] air power . . . seems to have drawn the teeth from the League's Sanctions. . . . The British Fleet, the great arbiter of the seas [can] no longer be considered invincible, at least not in closed seas in near proximity to Italy's land-based air force. ... A massed air attack ... to accomplish the destruction of Great Britain's mighty war fleet . . . might succeed...
...vein of light raillery, Molotov dismissed Uruguay's breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and charges that Moscow has been actively fomenting revolution in South America (TIME, Jan. 6). Molotov drew laughter by exclaiming, "To listen to the Uruguayans, one would think we had nothing else to do but interfere in other people's affairs...
...there were no such persons as Romulus & Remus, Auctioneers. Editor Woodhead was merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking for "Lo Mi Su" and "Li Mu Su," the ideographs into which their superiors had translated Romulus & Remus...
...playing at the Met, provides restful relaxation during this bookish time. Its locale is old California, just after the United States annexed it, and the story is a highly romanticized version of the conflict between the old Spanish inhabitants and the land-greedy newcomers. In good musical comedy vein, if not with great historical accuracy, Miss Swarthout takes the part of the highly decorative leader of the Spanish "vigilantes" and John Boles the part of a "federal agent" who is out to see that justice is done...