Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME notes (with thanks to Baltimore Sun's Bouton) Field Marshal von Mackensen's denial of incidents originally reported in German newspapers. Difficult it is, however, to believe that Monarchist von Mackensen never talked monarchy with his onetime Monarch...
Naturally such a play is not for rustics or provincial cityites. Last week the Author-Producer, famed Walter Hasenclever, made the questionable move of taking his farce, Marriages Are Made in Heaven, away from the great German metropoli and out to Frankfurt-am-Main. There good and pious Frankfurters tried to wreck the piece. When God lit a cigar they hissed. When he picked up a saxophone and tooted they booed. But pandemonium did not break loose until God accepted a highball from Mary Magdalene, grew confidential and confessed: "You know I never did create the World. Queer how that...
...what Old Max had painted. Persons of superior culture know that he chose to paint subjects lashed and gored by Fate-the poor, the orphaned, the aged and desolate. For years Max Liebermann haunted the orphanages, asylums and old people's homes of Amsterdam and later the great German cities. A decade passed while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today Old Max may be labeled and pigeonholed as the "German Millet," an essentially bygone master, whom screeching modernist-art has left behind...
Engaged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., since the retirement of Devereux Milburn most famed of U. S. poloists, Wartime flyer who was shot down behind German lines and later escaped from Germany, socially prominent resident of Long Island & Aiken, S. C.; to Mrs. Margaret Mellon Laughlin, daughter of Banker William Larimer Mellon, grandniece of Andrew William Mellon, relict of Alexander Laughlin Jr., late President of the Central Tube Co. of Pittsburgh. On June 12, 1926, Mr. Laughlin had an appointment with his dentist, said goodbye to Mrs. Laughlin. She next heard that he had died while under the dentist's anesthetic...
...evening program is much the same, but with the addition of numbers by Vitali, Carissimi, Morley, and a German folk song arrangement by Brahms...