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Died. Lieut. General Otto von Lossow, 70, onetime Bavarian Reichswehr commander, who once called Hitler a "swashbuckling little ward politician" and suppressed the Munich Beer Hall putsch (1923); in Munich...
Bemelmans was a Bavarian problem child. When he failed to pass the first grade of a school for dunces he was sent to the Tyrol to work in the inn of his prosperous Uncle Hans, whom his grandfather, a big brewer, called the "other Lump." The first Lump was Bemelmans' father, a Belgian painter who ran away with Ludwig's French governess. Uncle Hans likewise despaired of little Ludwig, whom he called "Lausbub" (lousy boy, or Katzenjammer kid), sent...
...have Strauss's forthcoming opus premiered at the opening of Munich's world-famed summer opera season. But last week, as the rehearsals were well under way, and the score of the opera was released to the public, war-loving Nazis got another unpleasant surprise. Obstinate Bavarian Strauss and his guaranteed Aryan librettist had concocted an impassioned plea against war. Its title: Friedenstag (The Day of Peace...
When he is not guest-conducting at one of Germany's numerous opera-houses and concert-halls (he is also one of Germany's top-notch orchestra leaders), Strauss lives quietly and well with his wife and seven servants at his home in the little Bavarian mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Originally the Villa Strauss at Zöppritzstrasse No. 46, was a simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers...
Died. Anton Lang, 63, Bavarian potter who three times (1900, 1910, 1922) played the role of the Christus in the Oberammergau Passion Play; after an operation for a stomach ailment; in Munich. Softspoken, spade-whiskered Anton Lang first appeared in the Passion Play in 1878, read the prologue in 1930 and 1934, was succeeded in his chief part by Alois Lang, a woodcarver...