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Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...
...second time Harvard University has rejected an offer of a scholarship from Ernst (Putzy) Hanfstaengl...
Germany's Minister to Switzerland, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, on vacation, hurried to Berlin for a conference, then back to Berne to make loud protests. Swiss Vice President & Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...
Otto came rushing to be in Paris while the Vice Chancellor of Austria, pudgy, loose-lipped Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, who is strongly suspected of wishing to have himself proclaimed Regent, conferred last week with new French Foreign Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin. In outward profession Starhemberg is an adherent of Otto, but there was every indication that the Prince was highly delighted to hear from M. Flandin last week that France still opposes any Hapsburg restoration. While Otto gloomed, Starhemberg expansively led the retinue of French detectives by whom he was surrounded on evenings of wine, women & warbling...
Author Jameson has shrewdly taken more than one leaf from recent history. To skeptical readers who might say, "It can't happen anywhere," she has only to point to Germany. But Frank Hillier and Sacker are not so much copies of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm as translations of them into recognizable English types. Author Jameson has made an ominously plausible case. A Cassandra who hates what she foresees, she prophesies so graphically that, unlike Cassandra, she may be listened...