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Results of the Harvard Army mathematical contest held at West Point will not be known for ten days, it was announced on Saturday when time was called on the match. Professor Arnold Dresden, of Swarthmore, president of the Mathematical Association of America, will correct the papers, and only mathematicians will be able to understand the scoring. Although D. V. Widder '20, associate professor of Mathematics, and Lieutenant C. F. Robinson of the Army, the two coaches, declined to predict the outcome, it is reported that the Crimson figure chasers had the edge...
...from the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. Conductor Bruno Walter (Schlesinger) has been forbidden to give concerts in Germany, gone to Holland to stay. Conductor Otto Klemperer was attacked and beaten by Nazis. Conductor Fritz Busch (no Jew, but a Socialist) was on the stand ready to conduct in Dresden one night last month when Nazi sympathizers raised such a disturbance that he had to hand his baton over to an assistant...
...Jean-Louis Forain who, starting out as a bitter satirist of middle class life, at his death in 1931 was known as one of the greatest religious draughtsmen since Rembrandt. Mr. Wiggin's Forain collection is unmatched in the U. S., has only three peers in Europe: the Dresden Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the London collection of Campbell Dodgson...
...Germany's Black Forest (300 miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns to cabaret work, lets a lisping politician (Gary Grant) keep her. The husband, cured and returned, threatens to take Marlene's child away. She is hounded down the scale until she gives up the child, flops in & out of a 15¢ flophouse, suddenly reappears as a toasted...
Inevitably the puffing of Bavarian monarchists fanned a few German imperialist embers. Two thousand adherents of abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II gathered at Dresden, were addressed by his daughter-in-law, ex-Crown Princess Cecilie. What she said did not amount to much but she joined in Hochs! and handclaps when General Bock von Wuelfingen went the whole hog, demanded the end of the German Republic and restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. Though this was certainly treason, Dresden police made nothing of it, stood about grinning, saluted ex-Crown Princess Cecilie when she went home...