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Nifty and haunting little songs from South Africa, sung for all that is in them, have made Josef Marais (pronounced Ma-ray) a favorite radio balladeer. Over an NBC-Blue network as usual last Sunday at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. his program, African Trek, opened with a few bars of his theme song, Sarie Marais; but as a special treat this time he sang the whole thing first in Afrikaans, then in English. He could be sure of a bilingual audience, because for almost a year NBC has been sending his program by short wave to the Afrikanders...
...100th broadcast, there were other festal features. Marais fans, invited to attend, came in such numbers that NBC had to put on the show in its new, copper-lined theater. The Consul of the Union of South Africa came and testified that the "liedjies" (little songs) of Josef Marais brought back to him the "breath of the veld...
Born on the Karroo plateau near Cape Town 36 years ago, Josef Marais began as a child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African...
Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was plugging America First. Of his wife Lewis cracked to a Chicago lecture audience in 1939: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
Mohandas K. Gandhi, who said this, had few followers in Occupied Europe last week. But Josef Terboven, "protector" of Norway, had many Nazis who agreed with him when he said...