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...Chamber and Orator Hitler spoke for a time on Kultur. The only female in his audience was beauteous Leni Riefenstahl. the Realmleader's cinema favorite.* Perspiring freely as he wrestled with his subject, the Realmleader cried: "To be German means to be clear! The Greeks of ancient Athens were akin to the National Socialists of today. Only a pure race can create high art. National Socialism is a reaction against Jewish intellectualism. It is a return to intuition. . . . Literature has done more than anything else to alienate peoples. . . . Sensation-hungry foreign correspondents would do well to discover the metaphysical roots...
Britain and France broke through the German lines in the fifth year of the War. If the U. S. fails to break through the building line in the fifth year of Depression, most economists believe that the result will inevitably be Inflation akin to revolution...
Like Diego Rivera, Gaston Lachaise somewhat resembles the figures he produces. Even more akin to them is full-bosomed Mme Lachaise who, although she has seldom posed for her husband, has been the inspiration for most of his amply proportioned torsos. Son of a Paris cabinet maker, Gaston Lachaise was an indifferent student at the Beaux Arts. When the woman who was to be his wife left for her native U. S., he followed her, earning passage money by carving figurines for Glassmaker René Lalique. He worked ten years in the U. S. before he thought he had enough money...
...Bardic music, written approximately 1,000 years ago and the subject for 200 years of fruitless inspection. This, says Arnold Dolmetsch, reveals "a flow of melody and a poignance that proclaim a most inspired and emotional period of music." Compositions of 934 A.D., he found, were "amazingly near akin to the most modern music...
...Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero (see map) had not opened for eight weeks to let a bale of silk, a bag of sugar or anything of the $50,000,000 worth of goods they held pass into commerce. When the first door opened last week, out surged something akin...