Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elsewhere we rent?in Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels. The Hague, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berne, Madrid, Lisbon. Only in the last decade has much progress been made in putting our representatives into American-owned homes. Several of the few we own?vide London, Mexico City? are the gifts of wealthy Americans. Crowded offices, dirty buildings, bad plumbing have been the earmarks of our official residences abroad. Gradually we are improving...
...result of differences existing between himself and George Blumenthal, general manager of the company. Mr. Waghalter maintained that the orchestra had been insufficiently rehearsed and he was unwilling to risk his musical reputation by conducting it. He was for twelve years conductor of the German Opera House in Berlin...
Totem poles, collapsing airplane of colored glass, a kult room, a hall of children's painting, a collection of bicycle parts, window panes, scraps of roofing material, were all part of an exhibition of modern Art in Berlin, free from all limitations of jury. The kult room was the heart of the exhibition. A sign, "Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip...
...ditties about "going home my mammy in (insert name of)" should be changed to have home time with capitol dome, and mammy can be the White House cook. This will at once place jazz on the proper national footing. A now Cabinet position must be created immediately, with Irving Berlin as the bearer of its portfolio-saxophone...
...first class musical talents." He spoke particularly of one man, a famous Russian conductor, whom he had offered $3500 a week before the war in a vain effort to get him to come to this country. This same man is now living from hand to mouth in Berlin, willing to offer his immense talents to anyone who will give him enough to live...