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...good many able people, including composer Hanns Eisler, contribute to the picture, but overall credit goes to Gustav Machaty, who produced and directed it and co-authored the script. He is best known to U.S. audiences as the man who made Hedy Lamarr's notorious (but artistic) indiscretion, Ecstasy...
...most ambitious sculptural scheme of modern times was rising last week in Oslo's Frogner Park. It was the life work of Norway's leading sculptor (and eccentric), Gustav Vigeland, who died in 1943, aged 74. Not since Michelangelo, claimed one critic, had a sculptor chiseled such a forest of figures-over 100 separate versions of the human form, in granite and bronze, standing, reclining, cavorting, caressing, all over some 190 grassy acres. Vigeland simply ignored the Nazi invaders, and they let him go on with his sculpture. The work took 40 years to complete, cost Norwegian taxpayers...
...there was no stopping Sickles. When Isabella moved her "court" to Paris, Minister-to-Madrid Sickles moved there too, played host at her salon to Gustav Flaubert, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Gambetta and the French Monarchists. He decided that France, too, needed a king, and began to intrigue vigorously on behalf of his friend the Comte de Paris, whom he had met as a French observer in the Civil...
...Gustav E. Langheld-Juliette Trjityinsky (Radcliffe...
...Army questioners a captured German doctor, Gustav Wilhelm Schuebbe, casually admitted that the Nazi Annihilation Institute at Kiev had killed from 110,000 to 140,000 persons "unworthy to live" during the nine months he had worked there. Dr. Schuebbe, a crippled drug addict who was head of the Institute, added coolly that he himself had killed 21,000 people...