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...midst of a campaign, he conferred with overworked generals who were simultaneously commanding troops in the field. First to realize that the complexity of modern warfare rendered a good commander at the front a poor adviser at headquarters was Napoleon's old adversary, Prussian General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst. To him goes historic credit for establishing the first general staff and setting up a War Academy to train its members...
...rather slight story of The Great Waltz is built around the careers of the Johann Strausses--father and son. Guy Robertson lends grace to the figure of Young Strauss as an artist in love, praying for recognition for his music, and balked by a jealous father. Marie Burke is very satisfying as the Countess who sponsors his career and finally brings him his "great chance...
...ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found to be in the genes and chromosomes of the germ cells. The classic experiment in disproof of Lamarckism is to snip off the tails of generation after generation of newborn mice...
...Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner, Franck, Johann Strauss, Brahms, Tschaikovsky...
...Thomas (Guest cond.--Timothee Adamowski) "Sylvan Suite," Second Movement Strube (Guest conductor--Gustav Strube) *"Samson and Delilah," Fantasia Saint-Saens (Guest conductor--Clement Lenom) "Five Decades" (Hans Wiener Dancers with Orchestra) First Decade, 1885-1895, The immortal Strauss waltzes sweep around the world. *Waltzes from "Thousand and One Nights" Johann Strauss Second Decade, 1895-1905. Ragtime makes its bid for popularity Cakewalk, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" Lee Terny Third Decade, 1905-1915. Importation of South American rhythms. *Tango, "El Choclo" Villolodo Fourth Decade, 1915-1925. Dance of the Allied Nations. Fifth Decade, 1925-1935. Modern sophistication. *"The Continental" Conrad...