Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read an article in the Jan. 13 issue of TIME magazine, that the last two sea elephants in captivity died. I would like to tell you that the day after Roland in the Berlin Zoo died, another one, Roland II, took his place. I wish you would ask the reporter that got the news where he got it, because I have heard that there is a place in Bremen where they raise these sea elephants...
JOSEPH LAUTNER JR. 11 years old Berlin Not- to Bremen but to Hamburg's famed Hagenbeck Menagerie the Berlin Zoo telephoned its order, obtained a 17-ft. bull elephant seal (Mirunga patagonica) to be Roland II.-ED. Coed & Principles Sirs...
Teachers College is lending its bit of support to the Nazi government by sponsoring a trip this Summer to the openly-propagandistic Berlin Olympics. Full academic credit will be given students for the time spent on the "Olympic Educational Tour...
Leni Riefenstahl is the 28-year-old daughter of a Berlin plumber who, like Adolf Hitler, went on to better times. She began her career as a ballet dancer in Munich in 1923. By 1930, she was one of her country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during...
...course of these activities, Cinemactress Riefenstahl delighted Berlin gossips by spending six unchaperoned weeks in a Mont Blanc cabin with eight male members of her cast whom she astonished by her skill with skis. In 1934 she met Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He perceived in her a personification of those qualities of health, energy, ambition, good-looks, youth and love of sport which are the German equivalent of female glamour, promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress...