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According to those familiar with political trends at the Capitol, fate of the law which was passed under the Curley administration hung in the balance, until, after a heated debate, the results of the roll call were announced by the Speaker. Frequent allusions from the floor to ex-Representative Thomas A. Dorgan, sponsor of the Bill, who sat with drawn face, in the gallery, intensified the argument...
When the curtain rises on Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan...
Andre Malraux, 1933 Concourt Prize winner with his novel, "Man's Fate" and Louis Fischer, Madrid correspondent for the "Nation," both directly from Spain, are the two speakers...
...Woodrow Wilson's stumping expedition for the League of Nations. To that method belonged the stigma of failure and the bad aftertaste of an unpopular issue. Another reason was that if Franklin Roosevelt made such a tour it would be construed as an admission that the fate of his Court plan was precarious. Best reason of all was that Franklin Roosevelt had something that Woodrow Wilson did not have: the all-pervasive radio. He had scheduled a radio "fireside talk" for next week, and the Senate committee hearing on his Court bill had been postponed...
...Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered because Victor Moore, as Mr. Beaver, is able...