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President Tiso's powerful Prime Minister is Bela Tuka, an outright pro-Nazi who was condemned to death for treason in 1929, later reprieved by Czechoslovakia's merciful President Eduard Benes. A bitter anti-Czech, Karol Sidor, is Slovakian Minister to the Vatican. He and Father Tiso constantly remind Catholic Slovaks that most of Czechoslovakia's leaders in exile are Protestant...
...Arsenic and Old Lace," that delightful story of two New England ladies and their poisoned elderberry wine, has come back to Boston, this time with the New York cast headed by Bela Lugosi. For the people who through some oversight have thus far failed to see the play, nothing can be done in this corner but give an unqualified advice to grab it while it's here...
...innocent maiden aunts (Jean Aikin and Ruth McDevitt) with the corpses in the basement are the most fascinating innovation in the American literature of the past few years. Slaughterers deluxe of the petite bourgeoisie, the nice old ladies are rivaled only by their nephew (Bela Lugosi) whose 11 murders falls one short of their total...
...Radcliffe Choral Society then rendered a few selections for women's chorus alone including three Hungarian Folk Songs by Bela Bartok; "Only Tell Me", "Do Not Leave Me", and the "Teasing Song". They also sang "Awake Ye Wintry Earth", a Dutch chorale of the sixteenth century, and the Bach Chorale "Now All the Woods Are Sleeping...
...with them. The horns made one or two minor mistakes but if the rest of the evening had been foreseen, a minor victory would have immediately been registered. Immediately following this, G. Wallace Woodworth led the Radcliffe group through the oft-repeated Purcell "Nymphs and Shepherds," two choruses of Bela Bartok and the Schubert "Valses Nobles," the latter being one good reason why transcriptions should be made with discrimination. Radcliffe sang well, but has done better. When the Pierian followed this with an adequate performance of the Morley "Ayre in D Minor," approval was shown in most quarters...