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...beck's board of health, who sanctioned use of the vaccine, promptly denied that it was harmful. Other witnesses testified that the labels sometimes slipped off the cultures and that they might have been put back on the wrong containers. This the accused nurse, Anna Schütze, denied. Professor Wilhelm Kolle, a witness, lost his patience, shouted: "These attacks against Dr. Calmette are abominable! It is impossible for me not to protest, because these accusations are brought against a savant of spotless reputation but who happens to be a Frenchman...
Composer Alban Berg started his Wozzeck music in 1914 but then like all good Austrians he went away to war. His finished work, condensed to 15 scenes, shows clearly the teachings of Arnold Schönberg, according to whose ultra doctrine it is enough for music to describe the adventures of themes. With great skill Berg has woven a pattern of absolute forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song...
Leopold hung it over the great staircase at Schönbrunn where it remained, pride of the Habsburgs, until 1922 when it went to the Austrian State Museum. In 1925 it was sold to London tycoons to defray a deficit. Of it in the U. S. alone there are 2,000 copies...
...cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field worker into the world's social register. Thirty-one years ago Capt. von Stephanitz formed his famed Verein für deutsche Schäferhunde,watched it grow from a little local club to an organization with expansive headquarters in Munich, branches all over the world...
...never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind. For, although Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner have stayed his first loves, he has had time and bursts of enthusiasm for Stravinsky, Schönberg. Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with a Thereminophone in his orchestra (TIME, Dec. 30), to encourage Hans Earth in his pioneering with the quarter-tone piano (TIME, March 3). His interest and energy have made him one of the world's great conductors...