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Principle Norwegian Delegate to the League of Nations, Honorable Carl Joachim Hambro will give a public lecture on "The League and Its Present Crisis," at 8 o'clock Friday evening, in the New Lecture Hall. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Dowse Institute...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...
...clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, his revelation that he has secretly built an air battle fleet the equal of Great Britain's, and his demand for a German navy 35% as strong as hers, has given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after a quick dash to London, was able to tell the Realmleader in his Bavarian retreat...
...emigration from Germany took place in 1871 when Son Walter was nine. His father was greatly respected as conductor of the Breslau Orchesterverein. As his friends and often as his guests the elder Damrosch had such great musicians as Liszt, Wagner, von Bulow, Joachim, Auer, Rubinstein. In Manhattan he quickly established himself as Wagner's most ardent champion. He founded the New York Oratorio Society, then the New York Symphony. In 1884 he gave the fashionable new Metropolitan its first taste of German opera. Death came before he could finish the season...
Brahms' chance came when a popular gypsy violinist visited Hamburg and suddenly needed an accompanist. The gypsy taught Brahms to love Hungarian dances. He introduced him to Joachim who paved the way to the famed friendship with Robert and Clara Schumann. Robert Schumann, one of the great influences of his day, preached Brahms' genius far and wide. Clara Schumann is supposed to have been Brahms' lifelong love, the inspiration of his tenderest songs. He never married...