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Berlin seethed with Nazi bloodshed but on St. Vitus Day all German flags went to half mast. Quietly at Wilhelmshaven the third of Germany's famed 10,000-ton "pocket battleships," the Admiral Graf von Spee, with six nin. guns, was launched and hailed by the Fatherland's Press as "unmatched in battle power for her size." Chancellor Hitler, just before the Nazi revolt broke, inspected the great Krupp works at Esse-n. Instead of passing this off as a trivial event. Publisher Hitler's personal news-organ covered its entire front page with militant pictures from...
...Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace...
...musicians their reputations are uniquely and indissolubly bound into one. They are the only famed lutanists in the world. Spanish Composers Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Joaquin Nin have written music for them. Paris, London, Brussels have applauded their playing. Fortnight ago they made their U. S. debut in Manhattan. Last week seven other cities heard them?Boston, Princeton, N. J., Greencastle, Ind., St. Louis, Lake Forest, Ill., Chicago, Providence. The verdict everywhere was the same: that here are musicians possessed of immaculate technique and a fine, poetic sense of unity. Lutes if played by lesser artists drop into...
...program of the quartet will be as follows: I Rondo F. Couperin Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by Joaquin Nin Sonata in D (XVIII Century) Mateo Albeuiz Granada Sevilla From "Suite Espagnole" Isaac Albeuiz II Serenade (K. V. 525) W. A. Mozart March: Allegro Romance: Andante Minuet: Allegretto Rondo: Allegro III Danza de la Pastora (Dance of the Shepherdess) E. Halffter Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by the Composer La Oracion del Torero, (The Toreador's Prayer) J. Turina Recitado del Pascador (The Fisherman's Narrative) M. de. Falls Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by the Composer De Murcia Joaquin...
...Babylon, excavations have proceeded as never before. British and University of Pennsylvania diggers continued turning up the wonders of Ur of the Chaldees. Their finding of the great ziggurat or tower, the temple of the moon god and the temple of Nin-Gal, wife of the moon god, was reported in TIME, March...