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...SYMPHONY -- The New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra this year has a vivid program of 30 two-hour broadcasts for Sunday afternoon symphony listeners. Presenting distinguished guest artists, the series is under the direction of Otto Klemperor, with Lawrence Gilman, noted critic, as program commontator. (CBS, Sundays...
Died. Baroness Louise Poglodowska, once famed beauty of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, onetime mistress of Archduke Otto (father of the late Emperor Karl) by whom she bore two children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging...
...bitter disillusionment of the period is brilliantly expressed in the drawing of A Woman by Otto Dix. There is nothing soft or feminine in the face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings...
...Chained" the Crawford-Gable team goes at it again, and, strangely enough, Clark loses out to Otto Kruger for the moment. But before his magnanimous retreat and final conquest, he and Joan play at sweet nothing's in a boat's swimming pool, in a speakeasy's private dinning room, and in the luxurious hay of a ranch down Buenos Aires way. Stuart Erwin adds his appreciated bit to the general gayety of the sort which Mr. Gable popularized in "it Happened One Night." Of this, unfortunately, there is not enough; and presently the characters find themselves enmeshed...
...TIME'S music editor, when commenting upon Otto Klemperer's reinaugural in New York [TIME, Oct. 15], didn't know the nickname members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic have for their beloved six-foot-four or so maestro. Even though the Los Angeles musicians show great love of Klemperer, he is dubbed "The Big Bad Wolf," a title which seems even more appropriate, due to his size and voice, than the excellent "O. K." adopted in New York...