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About "Upheaval" the memoirs of Meadame Olga Woronoff, nee Countess Kleiumichel, and Maid of Honor to the late Empress Alexandra. Booth Tarkingten says: "No writer upon the Russian engulfment has printed a more living account of human beings who lived and perished, were heroic and gay, weak, bewildered and absurdly brave during the months of a Terroy--Madame Woronoff is distinguished for her gift of expressiveness--and her narrative seems to me to be so revealing and so alive and so eminently readable that I could not. If would, refrain from saying that it should be read' by everyone interested...
...native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined, an Isolde who made stage pictures worthy of the music...
Hero of the Federal Reserve Act was little Carter Glass of Virginia. Last week Senator Glass, now 74, sharper in voice and crustier in manner than in 1913, was again cast in a heroic role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...
...cinema in general or for Ruth Chatterton in particular. Her performance, like that of Paul Lukas, as the doctor, and the late Robert Ames, as the husband, has a studied competence which leaves Tomorrow and Tomorrow the cold outline of a spurious dilemma instead of a tragedy in heroic compromise...
Enraged by this generality, El Pals of Montevideo flayed the Wall Street tendency "to group all South American Nations together as defaulters," argued that if even Banker Kahn did not appreciate the "heroic sacrifices" made by the Uruguayan people to meet interest and sinking fund charges on their bonds, Uruguay might as well declare a moratorium...