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...feature of the program is "Barbarina, Die Tanzerin von Sanssouci," starring Lil Dagover and Otto Gebuehr and is directed by Friedich Zelnik. Otto Gebuehr is well known in Germany for his character acting and Lil Dagover, who plays the part of Barbarina, has been offered a contract in Hollywood...
...British courtmartial of Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart of the Seaforth Highlanders (TIME. April 3): cashiering (no "drumming out" ceremony) and a sentence of five years in a civil jail. Charged on ten counts with selling military secrets to German agents ("Marie Louise" and "Otto Waldemar Obst"), he was convicted on seven...
Composer Goldmark is but one of many musicians to suffer from the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. Conductor Bruno Walter (Schlesinger) has been forbidden to give concerts in Germany, gone to Holland to stay. Conductor Otto Klemperer was attacked and beaten by Nazis. Conductor Fritz Busch (no Jew, but a Socialist) was on the stand ready to conduct in Dresden one night last month when Nazi sympathizers raised such a disturbance that he had to hand his baton over to an assistant...
...writers in any country can be so urbanely charming as Maurice Baring when he sets his mind to it. Some of his books have been more ambitious than Friday's Business but none is more delightful. A modern Prince Otto without the Presbyterian implications, this tale of an imaginary European country is so detachedly and lightly told that even its theatrically tragic end brings only smiles of applause...
...wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth stores were a particular object of attack...