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...Ohio's first woman Common Pleas judge. She was the nation's first woman to serve on a state Supreme Court, the first to sentence a murderer to death. Born in Salt Lake City, Florence Allen, at 15, moved with her family to Cleveland, was her class cheer leader at Western Reserve, graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1904. An able musician, she went to Berlin to study, earned piano money by writing criticisms for New York's Musical Courier. Two years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor...
London, hating to see rich contracts slip between its fingers, debated whether it had been wise to cheer so loudly for the Lytton Report, blaming Japan directly for the invasion of Manchuria. Wrote the Times: ''Whatever may be thought of the origins of the new state, it is impossible not to admire Japanese grit and organizing capacity. . . . Countries which have trading interests in the Far East . . . must not delay too long in making up their minds how to reconcile their trading activities in Manchuria with the principle of non-recognition...
...first Mexican concert he hired 40 players. By the time he reached the 29th concert he had no musicians under his baton. When he returned to New York in the summer he conducted the Philharmonic in the Stadium series (TIME, Aug. 21). Twice the audience rose to cheer him. But Iturbi well knew when he went to Philadelphia that a formal winter engagement would be a stiffer test, that success depended largely on the response of the men at rehearsals...
...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
...Thousands Cheer, Murder at the Vanities, Roberta, Ziegfcld Follies...