Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, How to control the cinema industry as effectively as the press has long been a problem for German Nazis. First system tried, whereby the industry got suggestions from the Government, submitted to a rigorous censorship, proved unsuccessful. Last winter, two of Germany's major producing companies, Tobis and Bavarian Films, were quietly acquired by Government-subsidized syndicates. Last week, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who fortnight ago warned producers that if they did not pay better heed to suggestions, means would be found to make them do so, made the German film industry virtually a Government monopoly. Into control...
...version of the opera with the Philharmonic-Symphony he has been guest-conducting all month (TIME, March 8), looked forward to hearing Gertrude Kappel sing again the part she had made a masterpiece four seasons ago. At the last moment, however, Soprano Kappel was taken sick, could not leave Berlin. Soprano Rosa Pauly, hailed as the greatest Strauss heroine on the Continent, came instead, to sing her first role...
Though she is 41, the Hungarian soprano's voice showed no signs of wear. Conductor Otto Klemperer recognized what a voice she had when he heard her at the Cologne Opera. In 1927 he took her to the newly founded Berlin Kroll Opera, starred her in nearly every premiere. Later she went to the Paris Opera and the Budapest Op era. Now Rosa Pauly sings most often in Vienna. Strauss picked her to sing his Elektra at the Coronation Operas in Lon don this spring...
...quotation onetime History Professor Dodd declared of his interview: "We accompanied the delivery of our instructions with a verbal expose of what the attacks mean in the way of beclouding German-American relations, but left it to the German authorities to draw their own conclusions." U. S. correspondents in Berlin reported authoritatively that mild Ambassador Dodd had actually barked one of the stiffest complaints ever delivered by one Government to another, proclaiming the U. S. Government & people thoroughly shocked by the Nazi press's "unparalleled coarse, indecent language." But his trip to the German Foreign Office elicited neither "apology...
Even official Berlin broadcasts admitted the Italians had suffered heavy losses, Rome was mum with mortification, and Madrid broadcasters had the Italians fleeing headlong as at Caporetto, in utter rout, abandoning field guns, anti-tank guns, ammunition, food and even that soldiers' treasure-cigarets-as Soviet bombing and pursuit planes harried them from the skies' and Red Militiamen charged after them through deep mud and slush...