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...combined talent of six despairing Boston newspaper men, aided by a CRIMSON reporter, failed to derail the philosophical train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual...
Fourteen years ago when Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows, founded the independents, there was scarcely a place in New York where artists who had broken with the academic tradition could show their work. Today modernist galleries blossom in all the side streets, the discovery of artistic talent has become as highly organized as philanthropy, so that Mediocrity appears excellent by contrast with the average. The Independents are, of course, the average...
...once led the Diaghiliev Rus-sian ballet. Jimmy McHugh has written pleasant songs ("On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Exactly Like You") which are plugged by Harry Richman. But the revue is in general gaudy, vulgar, and provides little opportunity for the best efforts of its best talent...
...British forces should not be withdrawn from Egypt! . . . Under British control Egypt has attained order and well-being greater than it has known for 2,000 years . . . duty of protecting the Egyptians . . . guard them against the inevitable tyranny of the Pashas!" Verdict: Pink-and-White has a tongue of talent, should prove a useful "regular" to the conservatives, seems to be the exact antithesis of Oliver Baldwin (son of Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin) who has grown a beard, turned Socialist...
...Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond he did a clog dance in a home talent show directed by Chicago professionals. They offered him a job coaching similar productions; he accepted...