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...functional modern approach" of his art, which is now governed almost despotically by the principle of utility. That principle needed to be evoked after the clutteration of the mid-Victorian home. We shall never experience the dubious joy of accumulating useless and ornamental junk. In fact, Miss Catherine Bauer, whose article deals with houses and cities, has no doubts about the passing of the self-contained, isolated home, man's castle, and she is all for communal housing. To the romantic the apartment house is of course far from desirable; he likes to know his neighbors because they live next...
LEOPOLD THE UNLOVED-Ludwig Bauer -Little, Brown...
...Ludwig Bauer, in reanimating these old horrors, darts back & forth continually between two points of view: the things which Leopold II tacitly approved in the Belgian Congo were unspeakable; Leopold was admirable as a great organizer, a promoter in the grand manner, a veritable tycoon among kings, a political genius of the "rarest and most dangerous kind-the genius which does not wish to reveal itself as such." When Herr Bauer is taking morality as his touchstone, Leopold shrivels before one's eyes; when he is taking energy as his talisman, his subject swells to the proportions...
...tropical storms, lashed by callous or vicious agents, cheated at the scales when they brought in their rubber, and kept in perpetual slavery by a "rubber tax" which had to be worked out in default of the money that no Congo Negro possessed. In his fascinating yarn Herr Bauer has made the most of the contrast between black man and white king. When he is writing of Stanley's trip down the virgin Congo, the prose picks up speed, attains poetic concentration. The translation, by Eden and Cedar Paul, is unobtrusively good...
...Europe. Josef Hofmann arrived on the Rex, attended briefly to his duties at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, then took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski, at 74 the world's best-selling pianist, is spending the winter in his villa...