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CONDEMNED TO LIVE-Johann Rabener...
Munich, Germany, Jan. 22-A year and a half after their marriage, Franstein Neumaier discovered that her husband known as Johann Taler, was a woman she told police today...
...successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan's Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth, Pianist Harold Samuel gave six Bach programs which, added together, took more than twelve hours. When the marathon was ended no member of the audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...