Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers agreed that, should Chancellor Hitler decide to pick a war tomorrow, fat little Denmark, a land of farmers as defenseless as their cows, would offer the easiest prize, especially since North Slesvig is swarming with Danish Nazis financed from Berlin. But the main danger was not last week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger...
Adolf Hitler repudiated his Berlin State Opera contract which had four more years to run (TIME, June 19). Fortunately for Klemperer and for Los Angeles. William Andrews Clark Jr. was aware of the big German's capabilities. Mr. Clark had supported the Los Angeles Orchestra for 14 years on the copper fortune left him by his father, the late fierce-whiskered Senator from Montana. Last spring he announced that he could do so for only one more season. Klemperer needed a job; Los Angeles needed a strong conductor to build up public subscriptions...
...stage to make stiff, pinched little bows. But his face was beaming. U. S. audiences had not behaved that way when he played Beethoven to them eight years ago. They had regarded him as cold, academic; his programs seemed too heavy. Back he went to his pupils in Berlin who revere him the way Elman and Heifetz revere the late great Leopold Auer.* Criticized for having no show pieces on his programs, Auer once remarked that he left all those to his pupils. Schnabel's pupils play all the modern music they like but Schnabel has stuck to Bach...
...Last spring Adolf Hitler's campaign against the Jews drove Schnabel from Berlin but when he was invited to visit the U. S. again he was as uncompromising as before about his programs. He would come but he would play only Beethoven. He would not play encores for the sake of sending any audience away with a marshmallow taste in its mouth. On no account did he want a long tour which might let him get stale. He preferred to play with orchestras, although orchestra fees are always lower than those for individual recitals...
...Born a Brazilian but trained in the best economic schools abroad, he approaches with a certain detachment . . ." Dr. Normano's training was hardly done in the best schools at all. His knowledge of finance lead him to detach himself quickly from Berlin Police nets with the $700,000 he procured mysteriously by his great talents. But he is back in Germany now, as Isaak Lewin, Berlin-born and bred. This is all very cruel to dig up again, but Normano was a great economist, and we are still sorely puzzled. And we pity Professor Haring...