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Songtress for Duchin's orchestra will be the beauteous June Robbins. Dancing will pause at midnight for the "Spread" proper, to be consumed in the courtyard, which "will be lighted by indirect lighting and the moon...
Hungary. Searchlights swept the skies of Budapest and air-raid protection squads in steel helmets patrolled the streets. The French Legation hastily removed important files to Belgrade and a speedy truck stood ready in the courtyard of the British Legation for a quick trip to the frontier. Believing that a former archenemy might have sufficient interest in balking Germany to the extent of lending at least moral support, Hungarian statesmen also discussed the best way of approaching the Soviet Union, hoping to ward off a German invasion that will certainly come to the landlocked Magyars if Hitler finds himself...
...laying aside their arms, getting on with their work as usual-all except the guard at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, never before invaded by foreign troops. The guards led by Count Valdemar, deemed it their duty to challenge the grey juggernaut as it entered the palace courtyard...
...clear cool afternoon, Tuesday, August 4, 1914, a grave, spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into a spacious room. Its windows looked out on the tranquil lake and lawn and trees of St. James's Park. The clocks of London struck three...
...foreigners saw the Heidelberg Festival. But the courtyard was packed with German tourists, mostly guests of the Nazi Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organization, and Reich Minister of Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was conspicuously present in the front row. Before the festival ends next week they will see three native German dramas: Josef von Eichendorff's Die Freier, Friedrich von Schiller's Die Räuber, Gerhart Hauptmann's Florian Geyer. But Shakespeare is the main dish. A Midsummer Night's Dream opened the festival, was scheduled for 21 performances...