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Under the 1921 Zeiss-B. & L. contract (revised in 1926 to avoid any violation of the anti-trust laws) Zeiss makes all its patents exclusively available to B. & L. for U. S. use; Zeiss also provides technical knowledge in return for a royalty on all B. & L. military goods...
...cited about the Philadelphia Orchestra's Youth Concerts, became their manager a year later. For musical director of his opera, Hocker got a onetime piano prodigy, Sylvan Levin, who had been assistant conductor to the great, emotionally profiled Stokowski. Hocker & Levin resolved to keep their opera youthful, avoid stars like the plague, angels like leprosy. They cherished an idea which the Metropolitan has persuaded many people to believe a terrible heresy: that opera can be sung in English. (Throughout Europe, of course, it is sung in the language of the land...
...take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut one's eyes and thus seek to avoid the horrid sight of the bloody and seething world revolution which threatens to overwhelm...
...holdings declared the property of the Father Divine Peace Mission, or be put in receivership. (When he heard this proposal, Father Divine angrily threatened to "evaporate for 1,000 years or so.") Last week it appeared that Father Divine would have to do some tall evaporating to avoid the suits of other disgruntled angels...
...than any other who ever achieved stardom, his passage into maturity may not, as it has to others, mean his passage into professional oblivion. It is not conceivable that Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartholomew might bloom into a Spencer Tracy. It is conceivable that Mickey might. If he does avoid the fate of Jackie Coogan, et al., he will have his Mom and the old theatrical trunk in which he was raised to thank, as well as his rough-&-tumble personality and physique. In fact, he does not like so much attention to be paid to his personality...