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Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer immediately announced, last week, that Britain will accept what amounts to a "hand out" from France. Should the U. S. follow suit a most important precedent would be created, a precedent greatly to the advantage of France, who might come to adopt the policy of "handing out" to her creditors what and when the French Premier may please...
...second striking contrast between this and the average exhibition of its kind is the differences of style which are displayed by the individual pictures. There is a picture to suit every taste. From the careful almost miniature-like technique of the "Sorco River, North Conway," with its quiet backwater reflecting the overhanging trees--and with which, be it admitted, the Student Vagabond was strongly impressed--to the rather violent impressionism of such works like the "Pond in Pinkham Notch", from the grey two light haze of the "Tuilerics Gardens" and the "Place de la Concorde" to the brilliant yellow sunshine...
...homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort for Mr. Sumner, whose attention was further occupied last week by his $100,000 damage suit against Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's daily pornoGraphic. The Graphic, dirtiest daily in the U. S., had advocated legislation to stamp out "Comstockism and Sumnerism...
They say Europe is effete. They say nothing can move sophisticated Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers...
...Gray then went on to say that treaty revision with the United States would force the other countries to follow suit because of the competition for Chinese trade...