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Startled at the presence of an Austrian Chancellor in Fascist Italy, the Chicago Tribune ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") headlined in the argot of gangland: ITALY GRABS UP AUSTRIA AS ALLY IN BALKAN RING...
...them it matters little when conductors freely snip great passages. Only critics and a small minority call such cutting desecration. Yet for them last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung...
...With the exception of Das Rheingold, two-hour introductory opera to the Ring, which begins at 5 o'clock, is given without pause...
...Wilbur to the Kettleman Hills operators: "A billion dollars in resources will be wasted unless we can work out a method of orderly development of this great field. As minority landholders we want to see an agreement that will stop sinking of wells that call for offset drillings, with ring after ring of offsets. We want to participate in a voluntary plan by which all holders of proven land can benefit. We want to avoid 'drowning' the gasoline market with the flood of Kettleman Oil." He proposed four remedies : i ) Pooling all profits from the field according...
JUNE MOON-Ring W. Lardner had a hand in this...