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...fallen House of Habsburg. No wonder then, that two years ago Pope Pius XI wrathfully recalled Papal Nuncio Mgr. Francesco Marmaggi from Prague, lest he be obliged to participate in honoring a dead man whose spirit lives as an active enemy of the Holy See. From that overt act of recall sprang the negotiations so happily concluded last week...
...ever open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping, no doubt, that the affair would blow over, but ready to seize upon any overt treason with a severity that has, as events have turned out, gained him the sobriquet of Mexico's man of iron...
Second comings are less breathless than firsts. Mr. Arlen will not again encounter overt U. S. curiosity about his fancy waist and waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends...
...close of a concert season is an emotional time for the faithful who have listened all winter. When the fast note has fallen away, shouts rise above the handclapping. The conductor becomes an object of overt adoration, especially if he has won the heart of his audience only recently. So it was last week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year...
...treaty (TIME, Dec. 13) a virtual protectorate over Albania, and is helping-nay, forcing -that little republic to arm against Jugoslavia. Similarly the Jugoslavs are preparing to meet the attack. But last week the status quo was almost certainly one of preparation, not of mobilization. Only an irresponsible overt act on the frontier seemed capable of kindling swift...