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...London, a midnight edition of the Daily Mirror was first to break the carefully guarded secret of who were the King's women guests (TIME, Aug. 17 et ante). Immediately, however, the Daily Mirror was so overcome by its own daring that the entire story was killed out of the 3 a. m. edition which had been originally scheduled to carry a fetching picture of Mrs. Simpson with a dog in her arms. In Europe the story broke as soon as the King and Mrs. Simpson began to go shopping in small Yugoslavian waterfront towns, she speaking...
...changing his perspective, until he could scarcely bear to touch his blurred and meaningless manuscripts. A few of the scenes took form with all his old perfection...but life shook before his eves, like the picture on the surface of a pond when a stone has disturbed its tranquil mirror." Readers who can appreciate such portaits will recognize that Van Wyck Brooks has succeeded as has no other U. S. critic in interpreting the masters of naitive art and, without reducing their stature in the slightest, made them simple and understandable in their greatness...
Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...largest telescope mirror in the world will be ready for installation some time before 1940 in an observatory in (1 Berlin, 2 California, 3 Zurich, Switzerland, 4 Paris, 5 New York City...
Blue Bedroom was planned "to give the effect of sleeping on a cloud"-a dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated in red and white bed ticking." "Drama" came from a crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue...