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...Heidelberg, where flows the Neckar. the Neckar overflowed last week. While Heidelburghers in the lower part of the city sloshed through streets deep in yellow water, slash cheeked korpsstudenten rushed from beer garden to beer garden with the news that the enormous floating bathhouses that line the Heidelberg quaysides were doomed. Thousands went down to the docks to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Swollen Neckar | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

First to go was the new men's bath, a 600-ft. barge whose bottom is pierced with innumerable holes, where Heidelberg men perform their ablutions. With a loud rending of the steel bands that held it to the wharf it broke loose, swung out into the racing yellow Neckar, crashed down on the solid Friedrich Bridge, split into a thousand fragments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Swollen Neckar | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Gold Coast 'Juniors' will render "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band." Following a novel feature. "The Pyorrhean Sorority," the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1934 INSTRUMENTALISTS TO GIVE CONCERT IN CAMBRIDGE | 5/16/1931 | See Source »

...Coast 'Juniors' are planning to play "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band". As the program draws to a close, the audience will be treated to a performance of the so-called "Pyorrhean Sorority," after which the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1934 INSTRUMENTALISTS GIVE CONCERT SATURDAY | 5/14/1931 | See Source »

Dour, red-haired Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (real name Plumpe-murnau) was born in 1889, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin University. He got Max Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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