Word: charlottenburger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across Germany to Berlin, where they were welcomed on a gayly decorated station platform by No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The colossal German military display which followed was even bigger than that staged last year for Premier Mussolini. In the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg 1,100 armored cars and tanks, 318 motorcycles, 300 heavy guns, 750 cavalrymen, 61,000 infantrymen passed before Regent Horthy in just over two hours' time...
...Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne...
Five years ago Alois set up an unpretentious little café near Berlin's Charlottenburg station. The place took on the air of an officers' club in the early days of the Hitler regime. There burly Schutzstaffel would show off their blonde, elegant ladies. Alois' little café prospered to such an extent that last week he opened a showy modern restaurant, the Alois Tearoom, at No. 3 Wittenberg-Platz, near Berlin's fashionable west end. "I call my place the Alois because I do not want to advertise with the name," Alois admitted, but three...
...aged 19, Gottfried von Cramm leased a flat in swank suburban Charlottenburg, simultaneously entered the University of Berlin as a student of law (his family wanted him to go into diplomacy) and the exclusive Rot-Weiss Club as a student of tennis. He was soon spending most of the money that came from Oelber on lessons with famed Professional Robert Kleinschroth. Two years later, after he had progressed to the point of beating Tilden-trained Wilbur Coen Jr., he got his father's permission to marry his childhood friend, dark, vivacious Baroness Lisa von Dobeneck, and to abandon...
Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...