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...Jews had been killed. Physical violence was on the wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth...
While art is subordinated to the shy mocking burlesque peculiar to the puppet, color schemes and settings by Bruno Angoletta are forceful and direct. The leading puppets preserve the illusion of being life size while the "business" in the show is carried on by "minor puppets" carved by peasants of the wood-carving school of Val Gardena, Alps...
Last week Strauss's Schlagobers had its U. S. premiere in a concert suite conducted by Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Most critics pounced on it as asinine stuff well-named. They remarked, not for the first time, that the genius who wrote Elektra and Rosenkavalier, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan, had petered out. Strauss's amazing orchestrations are taken so much for granted that no one thought to comment on the fact that the worst of Strauss is better than the best of most present-day composers...
Avco hired Publicists Edward L. Bernays and Bruno & Blythe to combat the Cord propagandists, P. P. Willis & Co. of Chicago, Doremus & Co. of Manhattan. But their replies were less heated. President La Motte Turck Cohu repeated his familiar objections to Mr. Cord. Avco was cannily waiting, hoping that the Cord faction would talk itself into trouble...
...Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini finishes the season's first eight weeks, before German Bruno Walter arrives...