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...Russian River. Founded 50 years ago by western artists and art-patrons, it has" about 1,500 members throughout the world, meets every week. The Bohemian is the only club in the world to exchange with New York's Lambs, includes such famed artists as Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Lawrence Tibbett. Artist members pay no dues, contribute their artistic efforts instead. Last fortnight the Bohemians began their annual midsummer encampment and festival, called the "Jinks," at their redwood camp, Bohemian Grove...
...Germany!" Soon afterward Chancellor Hitler placed the Fatherland's great industrialists on his right hand last week. He created and attached to his Cabinet an advisory Economic Council on which Munitions Tycoon Krupp von Bohlen will rub elbows with Electric Tycoon Carl Friedrich von Siemens and Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen. This was all very well for German business with a big "B" but in politics the Cabinet proceeded to carry on with arbitrary violence. Thirty laws were decreed at a single Cabinet sitting between 11 a. m. and midnight. Mainly these were aimed at "hostile and disloyal" Germans, particularly...
...Francisco, the Summer Symphony was ready to open its eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...
...Dresden critics were not vexed that Strauss had returned to tunefulness. They have long ceased expecting any more daring and original music from the composer of Elektra and the tone-poems. Conducting the premiere was an illegitimate Habsburg, Clemens Krauss, instead of Hitler-ousted Fritz Busch...
Aged Karl Muck is too frail now to conduct. Wilhelm Furtwangler is in high favor with Hitler but at odds with Frau Wagner because he felt she favored Toscanini. Fritz Busch is no Jew but the Nazis took his Dresden job away from him because they felt he had Red sympathies. Leo Blech who is a Jew has been permitted to keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would...