Word: bavarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German leaders tried hard to find a successor last week. At Schorfheide, his Bavarian shooting lodge, grizzled old President von Hindenburg quietly celebrated his 82nd birthday. An aide brought news of Stresemann's death. President von Hindenburg rushed back to Berlin. Preceding him was a telegram...
...Royal Scandal (German). Nobody in the little Bavarian town had noticed Frau Jugo until her drawers fell down one day in front of a church. As a partial result of this event her husband inexplicably received a medal from the local prince. Although the comedy is at times heavy and overplayed, in the approved Teutonic manner, it is at other times genuinely funny. Best shots: how a Bavarian Babbitt behaves in his office...
Music in May. All the traditions of the once extremely popular comic opera are fulfilled in this importation from Vienna. There is a Bavarian prince who falls in love with the daughter of an umbrella maker. There are plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...
...guests and banged till the glasses rattled. It was the 80th birthday, last week, of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Wartime commander of Germany's Navy, until 1916. The little mountain inn at Feldafing, Bavaria, on the shores of the Wurm See was crowded with Prussian Generals and Bavarian Princes. Perspiring waiters, imported from Munich, rushed to and from the kitchen bearing caviar, Rhine salmon, venison−in all 50 mountainous courses of food for the distinguished guests...
...film, taken last summer, consists of six reels, showing scenes in Hamburg and other Hanseatic towns, Berlin, Dresden, Leipsig, Weinar, Nuremburg, Munich, the Bavarian Alps, and other sections of the country...