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...year-old play may need a new director. Ex-Director Georg Lang, 6 ft. 5 in., whose enormous hands produce some of the world's finest woodcarving, became a Nazi in 1934. Later, when the village's propaganda chief went to war, Georg made himself useful designing Nazi posters and building backdrops for visits of party bigwigs...
...indicted 24 former German industrialists, all officials of I. G. Farben Co., as war criminals, the first such indictment against businessmen in history. Among those whom it placed in the same category as Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that...
...Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...
...Main Line of American jazz stood uncertainly before the cellar joints housed in lugubrious brownstones, read the screaming poster promises of the "terrific" stuff inside, but usually hurried on when they heard the noise coming out the door. There were a few familiar names-"Hot Lips" Page, Maxine Sullivan, Georg Brunis-but few fresh performances. The street was full of has-beens and never-wases. It took a tin-eared hepcat to stand it. But last week, after many a season, music was back on 52nd Street...
...Born. To George Mansfield (Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia), 34, Kaiser Wilhelm II's Anglicized grandson, and the former Lady Brigid Guinness, 26, daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer ("Guinness is good for you"): their first child, a son; in Essex, England. Name: William Mansfield...