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...speeches 980 good German workmen and their wives, all members of the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" Society, last week piled into excursion trains and went trundling third class across Germany from the Saar and Palatinate to Bremen. There they crowded aboard the 15,000-ton North German Lloyd liner Dresden for a cruise up the coast of Norway to the North Cape. Late into the night the Strong-Through-Joy danced, sang Nazi songs, drank fat-bellied mugs of beer. Most of them had never been to sea before...
Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss's Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was the Dresden Opera House where four years later Elektra scuttled crazily about the stage, screaming her lust for vengeance. Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest...
...Vienna also celebrated the Strauss birthday last week, but Strauss preferred to be in Dresden...
...always breed them. They're like children, needing the same care and treatment, subject to all sons of ailments. . . ." He thinks he was fondest of a filly named Bit of White, whose only claim to fame was a track record at Louisville. "She was like a bit of Dresden china, a friendly, intelligent, perfectly mannered little lady...
...Robert Ulich, professor of Philosophy in the Higher Technical School, Dresden, Germany, and one of the recent appointees, is Visiting Lecturer in Comparative Education and will give a course in the "History and Philosophy of Education in the Nations of Europe." Dr. Ulich was formerly Counselor in the Ministry of Education in Saxony and was the representative of Germany in an international conference on examinations called in England...