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...London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936, et seq.). The doll, instructed the Duchess, is not to be raffled off for charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh miner. "Will the little mother of this doll," wrote Last Year's Woman, "kindly name it Wallis?" During 1937 the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin on which King Edward...
Kidnapping, Year ago the Generalissimo was suddenly kidnapped and held prisoner at Sian (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936, et seq.). It was The Young Marshal Chang whose troops seized Chiang Kaishek. This kidnapping was promptly hijacked by Chinese forces allied with the Communists. At Nanking an extremely grave suspicion was abroad that Brother-in-Law T. V. Soong, disappointed in an ambition to become Premier of China, had put The Young Marshal, a "cured" ex-dope addict, up to seizing the Generalissimo. What followed proved that Chiang had remade China. It also gave the lie to generations of Chinese history. Instead...
Music for Three Waltzes was written by three homonymous composers. For Act I the melodies are Johann Strauss Sr.'s, popular Viennese bandleader of the mid-19th Century. Act II is credited to his son, Johann Jr., who wrote over 400 dance tunes, many operettas (Die Fledermaus, et al.). Act III's music is by Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier...
...Metropolitan Opera's current season Der Rosenkavalier and Roméo et Juliette have been billed as "revivals."' Yet neither had been absent more than three years from the repertory; Rosenkavalier had not even been newly staged. Last week a genuine revival finally did appear. Verdi's Otello, one of his last and greatest works, had not been seen & heard at the Opera House since the days when Toscanini conducted and principal roles were taken by dashing Leo Slezak, gossipy Frances Alda and drama-wise Antonio Scotti...
...story is now ready for the animation. The 75 animators are the master builders of the Disney organization. Upon them depend the unfailingly familiar forms of Mickey, Donald, Pluto, et al. The senior animators sketch out the main movements of the characters in accordance with the set tempo, leave the intermediate steps to assistant animators, "in-betweeners," students from whose ranks the future animators will be chosen...