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Reminiscing of the home in which she had visited M. & Mine. Raditch and the Seven Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...
...Schelling, U. S. pianist, awarded this prize to one Bozidar Kunc.. Composer Kunc had concocted a short concerto in two movements, the first in "a lovely, brave style," the second a dance which utilized folk melodies. Hitherto unheard of, Composer Kunc was discovered to be a native of Zagreb, capital of Croatia. His concerto will be heard publicly for the first time in October when Violinist Balokovic will play it in Berlin. Thereafter it will occupy a place on 66 programs with which Violinist Balokovic will tour European cities...
...heroic dead were buried last week at Zagreb, the chief city of Croatia. Their coffins had arrived from Belgrade on a train which carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part...
...Raditch, mother of seven children, said last week: "I hope my husband will be the last victim of this strife and that Serbia and Croatia will make peace." Her wishes were respected to the comparative extent that only four persons lost their lives in riots which broke out at Zagreb when Stefan Raditch was prematurely reported dying...
Other mobs had meanwhile stormed the Italian consulates in Zagreb, Spalato, Ragusa and other Jugoslavian cities. Repeatedly portraits of Benito Mussolini were publicly burned, and Italian tricolors were torn to tatters, spat upon, befouled...