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...signs of new interest in opera. The audiences had been bigger, more enthusiastic. Financially the Company had done better than it had in four years. What deficit there was the directors kept to themselves. Manager Johnson announced in advance that he felt it necessary to play safe at first, depend on a proven repertory in which Wagner, Verdi and Puccini would predominate (TIME, Dec. 23). He proved as good as his word. Rarely has there been such a conventional season so far as the operas were concerned...
...last year. Profits were up from $3,224,000 to $6,147,000. Recently Anaconda and Phelps Dodge boosted the price of copper to 9½? per lb., but Kennecott held to the old 9½? level. Which price will prevail in this curious division of copper opinion will depend largely upon the foreign demand, which last year set an all-time record. U. S. consumption was still 50% below the 1929 figure...
...Chamber of Deputies was "abolished" once & for all last week, according to Il Duce, but he further declared, "Formal inauguration of La Camera del Fasci e delle Corporazioni [The Chamber of Fasce and Corporations] will depend on the successful conclusion of the Ethiopian War and upon developments in the European political situation...
...power was cut off in the city, police had to depend on three portable sets operated by amateurs for spreading the directions which joined parties working in different parts of the area, and the Harvard unit was the vital link in the chain...
...Pictures depend upon the haloed sentimentality of its source, Producer Selznick has made this picture much more than a stock sample of Hollywood lavender & old lace. Although it exudes the nostalgic charm that has proved so palatable to cinemaudiences in adaptations of other Victorian classics, it is essentially not the story of a little boy's exaggerated devotion to his mother but that of a Brooklyn urchin who makes good in the old country. Handsomely rewritten for the screen by Hugh Walpole, beautifully staged, and superbly directed by John Cromwell, it affords proof that Selznick International...