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Three sizzling reindeer steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vasterg...
...racehorses with tiny loins and immense pointed legs whinnied and thumped in their stalls at the Oriental Park track; they smelled wind. Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army headquarters in the suburbs of Marianao, looked dubiously at their tar-paper mansions. And in the middle of Havana the lean eagle erected to the memory of 260 Americans who went down with the battleship Maine, Feb. 15, 1898, seemed to come alive and with a darkness in each wing to invoke the fall of unforgotten furies. The storm was coming. Next instant, quick as a door slamming, the storm...
...struggle of the upper and lower natures of man. . . . concentrated noise," "displaying nothing of striking originality in either melody or harmony. . . ." The sleek, confident folk in the orchestra and the boxes, their less fortunate fellows four flights up, received it warmly, clapped and clapped until Composer Howard Hanson,* tall, lean, with Ichabod legs, came out and folded himself into thank-you bows...
Chicagoans with lean purses, Chicagoans with fat purses, some with no purses at all, just their tickets and a coin or two to jingle, all gathered together one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Chicago Symphony. A few came early and a few came late but the great body of them, in the Chicago manner, arrived just on the minute, blocked the great doors of Orchestra Hall. All but a few most improper people were in time to see a trim little man scoot out alone, take a score of hurried, jerky bows and turn his back...
...American Tragedy. Horace Liveright, who dared to produce Shakespeare in modern clothes, (TIME, Nov. 23) dares to translate Theodore Dreiser's bulky volumes into lean terms of theatre. A stark tragedy he presents, one that catapults relentlessly to fearful doom, dismisses its audience terrified, saddened, bewildered...