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...drives the League of the Militant Godless into tantrums. Their Jubilee last week was devoted to exhortations and alarms over what they consider a "New Menace": priests in various parts of Russia have now nimbly inserted Bolshevism into their creed and are preaching what seems to peasants a harmonious blend of Communism and Christianity. The Godless bitterly complained last week that priests have identified themselves so closely with Joseph Stalin's pet collective farms as to announce sternly from their pulpits that peasants who refuse to join the collective cannot receive the ministrations of Mother Church. There is also...
...engravings of Albert Durer, the conflicting ideals of mediaeval and renaissance art can be seen to blend. In walking through the Durer exhibition now on view in the Germanic Museum, one feels that he is at the convergence of two ages...
...tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install six microphones and loudspeakers in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords; they had to be especially gilded to blend with the antique décor. For draping the chamber with suitable hangings favored drapers got at least $2,000. Since there was much nose-holding at these costs, and since there was already much more nose-holding at the offer of nearly half of Ethiopia by His Majesty...
Hotel New Yorker (34th and 8th Ave.) where the Three Debutantes' sweet voices blend with the music of Hollywood's own Ted Fio Rito. Couvert Saturday $1.50. Dinner from...
...Russian choruses are essentially the same. Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work...