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Last week President Ricardo Jimenez of Costa Rica issued a call for songs "fresh and luxuriant from our farms and our rivers, not withered from the cabarets," songs to defend his people "from the tremendous invasion of poor songs that cross the frontier to spoil our pleasure." Two annual national contests will be held, the material gleaned to be compiled into a book on native music...
...said that, while the Prince could not become King of Rumania, there was nothing unconstitutional in his becoming a Regent. Said he: "I know nobody who speaks of placing Carol on the throne. If I thought he was a conspirator in wishing to return to Rumania I would not defend...
General Alexandru Averescu, onetime (1920-22; 1926-27) Prime Minister, who helped to defend M. Manoilescue, testified that the late King Ferdinand saw Prince Carol in Paris last year and attempted to persuade him to abandon Magda Lupescu, his red-haired mistress, and conduct himself as the court wished. The Prince seemed willing, but made conditions. Whereupon the King angrily cried: "It is not for you to make conditions "but for me, the King, to do so!" Embittered at his son's attitude, the ailing Monarch returned to Bucharest. Soon afterwards, however, he admitted to General Averescu that Prince...
...truth--a feeling of harmony and unity. Unfortunately Mr. Dieffenbach's book does not contain the aesthetic requirements to be demanded from a book setting forth such views. The style is appalling. How does one think 'long, long thoughts,' and what appeal, if any, have puissant moral dynamics? Heaven defend us from such things. The cover of the book is blue and the print is large...
...BUILDERS OF AMERICA-Ellsworth Huntington & Leon F. Whitney -Morrow ($3.50). Unlike some advocates of birth control who whine for an indiscriminate decrease in the world-birth rate, Authors Huntington, able Yale environist, and Whitney, able Secretary of the American Eugenics Society, with many a diagram and graph, powerfully defend their contention that the intelligent minority should be more prolific. Most novel, indisputable, disastrous, are the statistics which they produce upon those who achieve irritating and ephemeral success during their collegiate careers, and who, when they graduate, are reluctant to duplicate their superiorities in offspring. Even chorus girls and stage ladies...