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...British government decides to take on the Indian matter, the question of the future of this tremendous Eastern state will be one of the most important features of the twentieth century. It is a fascinating subject and Americans can not afford to shrug a disinterested shoulder at the fate of 300,000,000 odd souls. For a remarkable picture of the whole business read E. M. Forster's "A Passage To India". If this does not interest in itself there is the fact that the fate of India tells on a grand scale the story of our own Phillipine Islands...
...There must be no deflection from the goal of self-government! The British Empire can only survive the fate of its predecessors, which crashed inevitably as the circumstances which created them passed away, if it can adapt itself to the new needs of an ever-changing world...
...locked up in the very dungeon which once held Discoverer Christopher Columbus was the interesting fate, last week, of Señor Federico Velasquez, defeated candidate in the Dominican Republic's recent Presidential election...
...deference to this idea the ballet directed by Leonide Massine, the setting and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, all aimed at abstraction of movement and form. But there was a libretto for nonabstract minds to follow. Many a humble spectator welcomed this crutch to keep up with " The Hand of Fate" as well as with " Rite of Spring...
...curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music. It is pantomime opera, takes only a little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played last week by Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff. The woman and the handsome stranger who taunt him were mimes. For the rest there was a chorus (17 artist-students from the Curtis Institute...