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...university town, demonstrating that Main Street has as many civilized perplexities as Park Avenue. It has to do with the appearance of a distinguished Canadian doctor (Herbert Marshall) at the university as a summer lecturer. He resides at the home of a childless, exquisite, subtly dissatisfied young matron (Zita Johann). He perceives that she is "an artist without an art," and, more particularly, a woman without a child. He recommends that she adopt one. But they become lovers and, when the doctor leaves for a pilgrimage to Europe, his hostess is pregnant...
...last two Austrian chancellors are in the new Cabinet: 1) Dr. Karl Vaugoin (Seipel disciple. Chancellor during October & November) as Minister of War; 2) Dr. Johann Schober (no Seipel disciple, creator of the Austrian Republic's efficient...
...seats, seven less than at the last election. In contrast to this meagre Fascist showing, the old guard Socialist Party of Austria, the Social Democrats, won 72 seats, one more than they held in the last Parliament. Finally the party groups aligned under grand old Austrian State Police Chief Johann Schober, whom the Catholic-Heimwehr forces ousted as Prime Minister six weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 6) won 19 seats, the chamber totaling...
...Romance. Somewhere between the opening chorus and the final curtain of The Well of Romance, Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) forgot that he had set out to write a burlesque comic opera and settled down to hammer out the sort of entertainment which used to be so admirably handled by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar but whose present day imitations are so consistently lustreless. That Mr. Sturges originally intended to poke fun at oldtime operetta is evident in his choice of name for his mythical kingdom-Magnesia. Very lamely some of his characters are dubbed Lieutenant Schpitzelberger, Baron von Sprudelwasser...
Three hundred years ago Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein made a big name for his fighting in the Thirty Years' War (later immortalized by Poet Johann Friedrich von Schiller). Not many years ago in Chicago, Wallenstein's fifth-grandnephew, Alfred, last in the male line of Wallensteins, went shopping with his father to buy a bicycle. It had been offered as a reward for the attainment of certain grades in school. The grades were easily earned but the right bicycle was hard to find. Father & son passed a music store with a shiny 'cello in the window...