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...Glorious peace or vain regrets...
Chief of old favorites for 20 years has been handsome, elegant General Mario Garcia ("The Beard") Menocal. now 70, longtime leader of the Conservatives (now the National Democrats). La Barba is beloved of back-country farmers because he was President in the glorious "time of the fat cows," during "the dance of the millions," (1919-21). when Cuban sugar sold for 22?. Of the millions he grafted then he has almost nothing left; his superb estate has fallen to ruins. Decrepit, distinguished, an old-fashioned leader, he was too weak this time to stump the country...
...last week the National Government had resisted brownshirt demands that "Hallelujah'' and "Amen"' be expunged from German religious services, but in Hanover the Governor.of the State made it illegal to sing hymns with "Hebrew names." His examples: Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls, Rejoice, Daughters of Zion, and To Thee, Jehovah, I will Sing...
...stage Phil Spitainy leads an orchestra of "glorious girls," whose number seems to hover between forty-eight and sixty, according to various advertisements. Be they all glorious or not, and whatever their number, they can make a powerful lot of noise, particularly in the trumpet section. However, some of the arrangements are excellent, as is the harmonizing vocalization. This department would like to recommend to your careful consideration a soloist with a flower in her hair and a nice set of pipes (not the music-goes-round-and-round vocalist, who, incidentally, is not bad at her stunt...
First class on the Cunard White Star's S. S. Aquitania and fresh from a costly Thameside London hotel that ebullient Negro romanticist Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Richard Halliburton of his race, last week got home to Harlem from one more Glorious Adventure. With him he brought a 68-page hand-written manuscript titled, "Why I Resigned from the Abyssinian Army...