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LAST month Mr. Julian Green, in the midst of being astonished at the number of beggars in New York as compared with Paris, spoke to a Times reporter about his ambition as a writer. He is now far more concerned with style than he used to be, and his concern is to render it invisible. What he wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries...
...world-famed singers, this year Lucrezia, Bori, Claudia Muzio, Giovanni Martinelli, Ezio Pinza, Gertrude Kappel, Cyrena Van Gordon, Lawrence Tibbett. It has its own ballet, expertly trained by Adolph Bolm. It has usually managed to pay its way although this year, to no one's great concern, it ran up a deficit of $30,000. The Symphony hopes to square itself by having Arturo Toscanini for its guest conductor in the spring. Toscanini has always wanted to go to California but the New York Philharmonic, none too happy itself since Clarence Mackay's fortune shrank, was unwilling...
...Wrenner-Gren eventually got his asking price when he sold to Servel, Inc. the U. S., Canadian and Cuban rights. Through this deal he became Servel's largest stockholder and later a director. After a series of reorganizations Servel emerged in 1928 as a $14,000,000 concern backed by the Brady interests. It makes gasoline engines, truck bodies, mechanical refrigerators in addition to Mr. Wenner-Gren's automatic ice boxes. Its refrigerator business has grown enormously but in that cutthroat field swelling volume brought no swelling profits...
...handle and have passed from the range of man's leadership. However, it has already been shown in industry that plans of this magnitude are not dangerous if handled scientifically. General Motors has used such methods successfully, and there is no doubt but that it is a strong, powerful concern...
...hoping that the United States and Soviet Russia as well will take a snap at the balt. But these diplomatic gestures can only be gestures. Mussolini is perfectly well aware that the Covenant can only be altered by a unanimous decision, and that France and all whom it may concern will certainly vote against any alteration; and on top of these facts he announces that unless "something is done," Italy will walk out on the party. In short, he is giving the paralytic the gracious choice of either doing a hundred-yard dash in ten seconds or suffering a severe...