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...imposing actor, an irreproachable singer of opera. Likewise, many have found him imperiously temperamental. Last week as the sardonic, demonic Mephistopheles of Faust he poured out his ruddy bass to the burghers, dames and daughters of Vienna in the Vienna Opera House. But frowns of annoyance danced on his brow; he found the time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial...
...Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...cents a day," said Mrs. Ruth J. Maurer to the Beauty Trades Show-at Chicago last week. But, she added, instead of spending a dime per face daily, which would total some $3,000,000, U. S. women together spend $5,000,000 daily on cosmetics, waves, shingles, manicures, brow-plucking, chin-melting, neck-ironing, bath salts...
...with the possible exception of Senator Borah of Idaho, the foremost liberal in the U. S. Senate. Nearly a quarter century ago, his state sent this farmer lawyer from the plains to the House of Representatives. He was and is homely, unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow Senator from Nebraska...
...make productions whose moral and artistic tone is enough above the average wanted, to be of some educational value" continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...