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...story: Four years ago, at Wahnsien, on the rushing Yangtze River, he called for help to a watching throng as his ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act 3 (Saxon State Orchestra, Dresden State Opera chorus, Karl Bohm conducting, with Hans Hermann Nissen, Torsten Ralf, Margarete Teschemacher and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 30 sides). Superb singing, perfect teamwork, and the latest touches in crystal-clear recording, make this complete and bulky last act of Wagner's great comic opera the record of the year...
...Importance of Being Earnest" is pleasantly reminiscent of England's upper crust before the age of umbrella politics and Lady Astor. Fragrant, trivial, witty, and as unreal as Dresden China, this horsehair classic of Oscar Wilde's is a harmless sedative for 1939 hangovers...
...Sawdust. After six weeks of testimony concerning the stupidity and naivete of German spies in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 14), the No. 1 espionage trial of recent times ended in Manhattan. Convicted by a Federal jury were: Johanna Hofmann, 27, a Dresden redhead who roamed the world as a hairdresser on German ships, wound up carrying spies' messages on the liner Europa; Otto Hermann Voss, 39, an airplane factory mechanic who turned in much junk and one set of valuable pursuit-plane plans to the Nazi intelligence service; ex-Private Erich Glaser...
...Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read it. While Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other prominent Nazi disciplinarians boiled with rage, Composer Strauss went quietly on with his work. But when Die Schweigsame Frau was finally performed in Dresden, Librettist Zweig's name was absent from the programs, and Nazi critics were hostile. It was immediately dropped from the repertory. Months later, Strauss resigned as head of the Musikkammer...