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Britons, living on an island at Europe's edge, are inevitably concerned with Europe and Soviet Russia's emergence there. Churchill's solution, and theirs, is to preserve a place in Europe by getting along with Russia if possible. Britain may be forced to vie with Russia in Europe, but she hopes for a worldwide order in which European rivalries may be merged and in which the Empire may thrive. Richard Kidston Law, next in rank to Anthony Eden, told the American Chamber of Commerce in London: "The interests of the U.S. and the British Commonwealth demand...
Irene Bordoni, super-Frenchy musicomedy veteran (Hitchy Koo, Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...
Right now the ladies are preparing to welcome the Yard-and-Houselings at a dance which will vie with the Yale game next Saturday. They confidently expect a big turnout, despite the game. "We always do pretty well," one is reported to have said. Lucky Freshmen will go out on the 7:30 train, be carried back by special...
Next day the New Opera's 100-odd youthful singers turned to polishing up their coming offerings: Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, Verdi's Macbeth, Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame. They raised Steinway Hall's roof with incessant rehearsals. They were out to prove, once & for all, that opera does not have to be sung by middle-aged tenors and bulging contraltos. Between arias, they hotly argued this revolutionary' idea over hamburgers and milk in the 57th Street Automat. To the participants the New Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came...
...Vie Bohème. In Manhattan, Carl Leila patiently explained his wife's condition to police: "I am an artist. I am very temperamental. During the discussion over our matrimonial problems, I became emotionally unstrung. I bit off the tip of her nose...