Word: finck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week a favorite entertainer of Berlin's cafe society was twinkly-eyed Werner Finck, one of the daring, politically sophisticated German comedians who get their laughs at the expense of the Nazis...
...Comedian Finck would suddenly interrupt his patter, shoot his arm up in a burlesque Nazi salute-and then adjust a picture. Deftly, but unmistakably, he would caricature the well-known posturing of top-rank Nazis. Sometimes when he walked off the stage he mimicked gimpy Dr. Joseph Goebbels. For these offenses he has often been in the Nazi doghouse, once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators...
Henderson and Aldrich were the last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...