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...connection with the hundredth anniversary of the death of Johann von Goethe, an exhibition of some of his work has been opened recently in the Germanic Museum. The exhibition consists of letters and manuscripts by Goethe, photographs of stage settings of "Faust," and illustrated editions of his works. Among the latter are those by Eugene Delacroix, founder and leader of the romantic movement in French painting, and by Ludwig Richter, noted German illustrator of the nineteenth century...
Lectures and prizes in commemoration of Johann Von Goethe, author and scholar, have been common in universities for a century. At the ending of the second century since his death, the Harvard Department of Germanic languages and literatures as well as the Visiting Committee on German have further kept his memory alive by arranging four public evening lectures at Sanders Theater. Professor Eugen Kuhnemann, brilliant lecturer of the University of Breslau has already commanded two of such meetings. Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann and Professor Bliss Perry, Emeritus, will deliver the two remaining lectures on March fourth and March twenty-second respectively...
...sixteen foreign teams ? to arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...
Beginning in the style of Johann Wyss's classic boy's story, Author Morley's yarn purports to be written by a serious-minded, middle-aged little Swiss who leaves his filing clerk's job with the League of Nations to take his wife and two sons on a pleasure cruise in an airliner. Over the Atlantic the airship runs into a frightful storm. Just in time the Robinsons abandon the crippled ship, are whipped away into the night on an air-raft. They come safely to rest on the mooring mast of the Empire State Building, still unfinished, which...
While Congress was having its holiday rest last week. Parliament in musical Austria busied itself with musical copyrights, particularly as they affected the waltzes of the late Johann Strauss. Two years ago the copyright protecting Strauss's music was extended because his widow depended on the royalties. Widow Strauss has since died and Parliament saw no reason for a bill to extend the copyright period. On Jan. 1 the "Blue Danube" and many an-other lilting waltz became common property...