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...control the cinema industry as effectively as the press has long been a problem for German Nazis. First system tried, whereby the industry got suggestions from the Government, submitted to a rigorous censorship, proved unsuccessful. Last winter, two of Germany's major producing companies, Tobis and Bavarian Films, were quietly acquired by Government-subsidized syndicates. Last week, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who fortnight ago warned producers that if they did not pay better heed to suggestions, means would be found to make them do so, made the German film industry virtually a Government monopoly. Into control of UFA, which...
...Bavarian-born fancy-dress designer who at the age of five made her first costumes for the fairy story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, now rents out 50.000 costumes. In Northwestern University's Thome Hall. Costumologist Schmidt was introduced by President Walter Dill Scott, after her speech was presented a velvet cushion topped by a large gilt and tinsel crown...
Spain's civil war seemed to hinge last week upon profound deliberations by Adolf Hitler in his Bavarian retreat and on secret Anglo-French moves to sway Berlin. The German envoy accredited to the Spanish White Government at Burgos is General Wilhelm Faupel. Last week he arrived in Berlin from Spain in a cloud of rumors that White Generalissimo Franco was asking an additional 60,000 German soldiers to help...
...last week Baron von Neurath and Count Ciano merely went over in Berlin the understandings to which Italy and Germany have come in recent weeks, more or less secretly. A special sleeping-car train then took them to Berchtesgaden, whence they drove to the chalet Haus Wachenfeld, the Bavarian snuggery of Der Führer. Corporal Hitler, in a plain brown tunic with a large swastika just above the left elbow, saluted General Ciano who returned the salute. They talked for four hours. Simultaneously in Rome congratulatory messages poured in upon King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena...
...meeting onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm, now an aging fop. Later in the week they were invited to lunch by one of Germany's new rulers, Air Minister and Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who had just returned from Reichsführer Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat where he is only occasionally invited. The Air Minister introduced the airman to his wife, onetime Cinemactress Emmy Sonnemann, and to the latest of his series of lion cubs, each of which is returned to the zoo when it grows too big and surly. To the Lindberghs he showed...