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...elaborate hall of Lady Vittal das Thackersey's marble villa outside Poona squatted more than 100 persons last week-Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...
...time to eat. They nearly smothered Lawrence Tibbett trying to get his autograph. They flocked like hummingbirds around handsome, affable Arthur Walter Kramer, editor of Musical America who, dedicating his current issue to the Federation, ended his apostrophe: "It is, as it ever will be. Goethe's 'das ewig Weibliche' [the eternal feminine] that leads...
...drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail entrance, was driven to the villa of one of his followers, Lady Vittal Das Thackersey...
...elapsed since the first French film was shown, and thus far no steps have been taken to do the same with German films. Though less expensive to produce than Hollywood's, they are on an average, more intelligently acted and directed. "Maedchen in Uniform," "Zwei Herzen," "Kongress Tanzt," "Das Floetenkonzert," and many others show a finesse which is rarely found in American movies. If students are given the opportunity to see German films in college, they will take an interest not only in this art, but in the spoken language as well, which they will have an opportunity to learn...
...Eckener landed again at Lakehurst, this time in command of the LZ-127 (Graf Zeppelin). His ship moored fast, Dr. Eckener left it to the horde of sightseers, sauntered across the floor of the dock, beamed up at the LZ-126, long since renamed. Eyes brimming, he muttered: "Das ist mein schatz" ("That's my baby...