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...Germany the Jewish savant now has no chance at all to earn a living. Aryan scientists made that plain last week when the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences held its annual meeting. To Chancellor Hitler, Physicist Max Planck, the Society's president and a Nobel Laureate, sent this salute: "The Society begs leave to tender reverential greetings to the Chancellor and its solemn pledge that German science is also ready to cooperate joyously in the reconstruction of the new National State...
Director Robert Batholow Harshe of the Institute cleverly arranged the show along the galleries of the second floor as a "miniature history of art." Plain to see last week was the centuries' meandering sequence of styles in painting, each example a world-famed masterpiece. And Director Harshe headlined the show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from...
...bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even more rootedly proletarian than his. Mixture of Pennsylvania Dutch and Iowa stock, plain in face and nature. Josephine Herbst has spent 38 restless years. After college (at the Universities of Iowa and California) she went abroad, in Paris met and married radical Author John Herrmann, lifelong friend of Ernest Hemingway. They lived in Paris two years, then wandered to Germany, Italy, Seattle, San Francisco...
...following appeared in Ted Robinson's "Philosopher of Folly's Column," April 22 issue, Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians...