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...abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting "no objection" diplomatically to them was often construed by bond salesmen as left-handed approval and used accordingly. Severest critic of this State Department policy was irascible little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. He exploded...
Because Walter was the man chosen as most worthy to relieve Toscanini, no audience this season has waited with more curiosity to read the criticisms in next day's papers. How would the big German please Critic Lawrence Gilman, sitting languid and aloof on the left side of the house? How would spare, dry William James Henderson react to him? Or Olin Downes, sitting a few rows behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing...
...Colt himself in the next room, Murderee Carewe's death-scream came on schedule. Before Colt could unravel the tangled clues, two more victims died horribly. Writing detective stories is a sideline for Author "Anthony Abbot." According to Publishers Covici & Friede he is "a well-known novelist and music critic." While a newshawk he was the confidant of a real, live Manhattan Police Commissioner, learned about crime from him. Author Abbot is advertised as rising late, never eating before 7 p. m., knowing more Manhattan policemen by their first names than the Police Commissioner himself...
...Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow of Author Donn Byrne (now Mrs. M. M. Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected...
...Federation Board's meeting next week and, instrument in hand, force a vote on the ukulele's status. To plead her case she will present affidavits from famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...