Word: gretel
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...example, that the Deutsche Jugendkraft with a membership of over 100,000 throughout Baden was dissolved. Mr. Bingham implies that because the Nazis have promised not to discriminate against Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their good faith? Or are we to consider the gross violations of the Olympic Code contained in the cases of Dr. Prenn, the tennis player, Beelig, the boxer and Nathan, the long distance runner, to name but a few who have been denied...
...Lambert Co. (Listerine) anticipated when it engaged her last autumn (TIME, Nov. 12), Farrar proved to be no ordinary storyteller. Her first broadcast was for the holiday matinee of Hansel und Gretel. But instead of lingering over a plot which every one knows, she chatted informally about the 52-year-old Opera House, candidly admitted that it was a year younger than...
...raggedy pig-tailed Gretel was Soprano Queena Mario who in California once sang Micaela to Farrar's Carmen. Farrar recalled how at that performance she had gone to the young singer's dressing-room and fairly dragged her out to bow before the curtain. Instead of a long-winded analysis of Humperdinck's music, Farrar sang the children's prayer, playing her own accompaniment. Listeners were amazed at the freshness of her voice...
...with Baron Munchausen (Funnyman Jack Pearl), Lucky Strikes undertook to sponsor the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts hitherto paid for by National Broadcasting out of its own pocket as a sustaining program. The Metropolitan will be on the air Saturday afternoons and for special matinees, starting on Christmas with Hansel und Gretel. The Lucky Strike contract is worth at best $100,000 to the hard-pressed...
...changed to Wheatsworth Inc.; two years ago it was sold to National Biscuit Co. for $5,300,000 in N. B. stock. A prime advertising stunt of Mr. Bennett's was the Wheatsworth "Gingerbread Castle" at Hamburg, N. J., designed by Joseph Urban after the opera Hansel & Gretel, visited by 500,000 people yearly...