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Illustrating from the old Prussian bureaucracy, whose history he traced from the Constitution of Weimar in 1813, he declared that the system only worked when men of the highest calibre had control of the machinery. When the ideal of self-administration in the states and townships of the German Federation had been fairly well established, Bruening said, laws were more of a directive character than an attempt to fit every case. He said that adaptability and elasticity characterized this legislation...
...death blow, I still take a lively interest in the doings of its former members. I hope you'll pardon me if this leads me to take the liberty of correcting a mistake in your article: The Baby Accident had no Communistic flavor whatever, and happened in Weimar in 1921, when the trend of the Bauhaus was definitely unpolitical; the parading of the town was done by a few students only, among whom was neither the baby nor its mother. Only a cradle destined for the baby's use was marched around; finally no attempt was made...
...Walter Gropius was appointed director of the rather stodgy Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar. He attracted a group of young students interested in functional, non-eclectic building design and in the economic, social and philosophical ideas that went with it. Early Nazi activity in Weimar made the town too hot for him; in 1925 Director Gropius was glad when the city of Dessau offered funds and a site for a long, barrack-like dormitory and school building which Gropius called the Bauhaus (Building House...
...chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...
...fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch was killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich, enrolled...