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Seasoned correspondents who had viewed the crown jewels of the Romanovs with mild amaze cabled that they were "dazzled" last week when the Soviet Government finally placed on display the fabulous toys and baubles of the Tsars...
...stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within...
...attention last week, carried out curt orders in haste. Il Duce's logical and ruthless spirit was astir. Before the week was out he haded has "an Augustan conception of grandeur." 3) Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the care of "indigent...
...Yale University Theatre is completed at about the same time that Harvard Square has welcomed the opening of its commercial "University Theatre" for moving picture display; while our organizations, the Dramatic Club, the Circle Francais and others, will have to continue their functions in Brattle Hall, Agassiz House and at other even less dignified places...
...commenting on a certain peculiarity which was noticeable at the last Pierian rehearsal said, "Everyonce in a while during the rehearsal. I heard the cutest little grunt from one of the string sections. I am going to try to compose a piece which will give them a chance to display their pretty little grunt. I think that by the end of the next practice, the orchestra will be in a fair way to give a truly successful concert...