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Early one evening last week the manager of the Zagreb Narodno Kazalista peeked nervously through the curtain, and noticed that the theatre was half-filled with students from the Zagreb Technical College. There was nothing surprising in this, for on the stage of the Zagreb Narodna Kazalista, usually the home of grand opera and classic drama, that slick-haired, honey-colored Harlem Negress. Josephine Baker, was due to appear. What worried the manager was the lack of welcome in the mien of the young Croatian technicians. When la Backaire, as most of Europe calls her, started to dance, her nubile...
...most ominous note was struck at Zagreb, seat of the Croatian Party led by Dr. Vladko Matchek, who came out strongly in favor of the Dictatorship when it was first proclaimed. Last week, however, Doctor Matchek and fellow Croats, barred from their own party headquarters in Zagreb by the police, were informed by Prime Minister General Zivkovitch that "all political parties are terminated and citizens do not assemble for political purposes since there are not any." Thereupon Dr. Matchek figuratively rent his garments, crying: "Woe to Croatia! His Majesty has not given us the new liberties we expected...
Wily thieves tiptoed into the U. S. consulate at Zagreb one night last week. They wanted the consular seal. With it they could forge visas, and thus wangle Jugoslav emigrants into...
Delegates representing His Majesty's least devoted and most unsympathetic subjects, in Dalmatia and Croatia, met at Zagreb, last week, declared themselves to be an independent Parliament, and announced that Croatia-Dalmatia will hereafter conduct its internal affairs without regard to the Royal Government at Belgrade, while allowing the Crown to represent Croatia-Dalmatia in foreign affairs...
Died. Stefan Raditch, 57, foremost Croatian statesman; at Zagreb, murdered...