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...Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General Calles' so-called "puppet," President Portes Gil, called at the U. S. Embassy?something which no Mexican President has done for many, many years???and expressed to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow the Government's extreme gratitude for the rifles and ammunition which President Hoover is permitting to enter Mexico in hopes that the federal soldiers will thus be aided to make a quick peace. During the week Finance Minister Luis Montez de Oca announced...
Quite by chance librettist and musician were brought together to do a curtain-raiser. An astute and sporting manager, D'Oyly Carte, saw the possibilities, launched the inimitable comic operas which have been wide favorites these 50 years???H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzancc, Patience, lolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore. But it was also D'Oyly Carte who charged the famous £140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection...
...Socialist Government?the first one in five years???took office just nine years to a day after the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Hermann Müller and other Germans, cowed, docile. Hermann Müller was Prime Minister in 1920 for a brief term. His present swaggeringly named Cabinet will probably be revamped when Great Dr. Stresemann is able to be up and active again...
...joined his colleague on the front pages of the newspapers last week. While Senator Couzens was peevishly demanding Secretary Mellon's resignation, Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, twice elected "good gray governor" of Michigan (1913-16) and first Democrat to be sent to the Senate from that State in 70 years???quietly, unostentatiously died of pneumonia...
...literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years??? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger's previous Power...