Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Rome as a student of philosophy and experimental psychology. She read, talked to educational theoreticians, visited schools where "immobile children were nailed to their seats." From Friedrich Froebel she learned that education should come to the young as a result of self-activity. She found that Johann Pestalozzi held sense-perception to be the source of knowledge. In 1907 she was given the opportunity of putting her theoretical research to practical...
Musical-A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus), BITTER SWEET, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, HEADS UP!, SONS O' GUNS, THE LITTLE SHOW, WAKE UP AND DREAM...
Wake Up and Dream. Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer. The music, for instance, which accompanies his latest revue is by a trio consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel...