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...second New England Conference last week. These conferences were organized a year ago to seek some sort of co-operation between the strongly individualistic communities and industries of New England. Long ago this district yielded its literary and cultural prestige to Manhattan. But industrially, especially in shoes, textiles and knit goods, it held its predominance until shortly after the War. Since then it has not progressed as have other sections of the country. It has even retrogressed in some instances. Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric pictures this New England as the result of a social, industrial, political snobbishness...
...Like all the rest of you, even when she was very tiny, she was busily doing whatever mother was doing and early learned to sew, to knit, to dust, to sweep, to set the table, to stand on a box and help with the dishes at the sink, to dry them shinily and to put them away on the cupboard shelves...
Welcome. Premier Baldwin opened the Imperial Conference with an allusion to its origin in the assembly of Dominion Premiers at London in 1887 to attend the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. "The present Imperial Conference," he continued, "must seek to discover how the Dominions may be yet more closely knit to the mother country...
Imperialist Bruce. Such lack of enthusiasm for the Empire, such emphasis upon the Commonwealth, naturally displeased Premier Bruce. His Australia, with but 5,000,000 population, looks with affright at teeming Japan and for protection to a well-knit Empire. Therefore Premier Bruce declared with emphasis to the press...
...Mascagni believes that all his operas are as good, if not better, than Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking a ship...