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...Nazi Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund in 1936, resumed functioning under the leadership of a sleek, pompous, garrulous ex-chemist named Fritz Kuhn whose offices in Manhattan are decorated by portraits of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler...
More whoops came from Pittsburgh and Kansas City, homes of two of the youngest big U. S. symphony orchestras. Reason: both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Kansas City Philharmonic signed up permanent conductors. To Pittsburgh went pudgy, astringent Fritz Reiner who, since resigning from the leadership of the Cincinnati Symphony in 1931, has guest-conducted here and there and headed the orchestra department of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Kansas City signed its first long-term contract with U. S.-born Karl Krueger who, during the past five years, has been whipping its depression-born orchestra into a first-class...
...rate conductor, 3) top-notch musicians, announced a drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and 7) Rumania's Georges Enesco. To Klemperer went the job of rebuilding the new orchestra. He heard auditions, reshuffled the old personnel, sweated his musicians into...
...There is no immediate threat of a war in Europe," Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government and author of "Government in the Third Reich," said in an interview yesterday...
Yesterday, he introduced Fritz Crisler, former Princeton football mentor newly appointed to Michigan, to a group of Michigan alumni living in Boston at a luncheon...