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...together. We both accomplished careers." So, according to Correspondent Prince Pignatelli of Universal Service (Hearst), said His Holiness Pope Pius XI the day after election, in Rome. When he was Achille Ambrogio Domiano Ratti, Apostolic Delegate to Poland, Pius XI was photographed in Warsaw with Herbert Hoover and Marshal Josef Pilsudski...
...trace the obscure rise of Juliu Maniu is to turn back to the days when Rumanian Transylvania was ruled by His Apostolic Majesty, Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Among the least of those who sat in the Hungarian Parliament was Juliu Maniu...
...famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled and swigged vodka*-but Stalin remained as usual coldly, inscrutably by his own fireside, never addressing the mob by radio, never overwhelmed...
...Volksoper Jeritza had her most rigorous training, learned stage technique and many rôles. While there she took a holiday at Ischl where the Imperial family spent its summers. The Emperor Franz Josef liked the opera, liked especially Die Fledermaus of Johann Strauss. He went one night when Jeritza was Rosalinda, sat attentive in his box, tapped his foot to the music, clapped loudly when she sang the Czardas. Three times Jeritza curtsied deep and began again. . . . The performance went on. ... Right triumphed over wrong. . . . The old Emperor beckoned an attendant: "Why have they always old, fat singers...
...Philadelphia last week the Curtis Institute of Music* broke all precedent and began its fifth season on a purely scholarship basis. No tuition fees were accepted, musical merit was sole entrance requirement. Again is Pianist Josef Casimir Hofman director...