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...Stagemanager Goebbels pushed the button and the obedient German people in every village in the land opened their mouths and sang the old Dutch thanksgiving hymn. Dankgebet, which begins ''God make us free." Written by Adrian Valerius in 1597, the most popular German translation is that of Josef Weyl. Forty million Nazi voices boomed out the words: "Wir treten zum Beten vor Gott dem Gerechten" ("We step up before God the Just to Pray...
Until this performance in "Desire" the Blond Venus has given the critics ample justification for their claim that she was merely a handsome woman who ran into all sorts of scrapes and took them all with the same dull look of languorous rapidity. To the mind of Josef von Sternberg, the dead pan was a panacea. But Dietrich under the new regime of Frank Bozarge is free to act, and she dispels with a flash all doubts as to whether...
Once a winter a piano with a specially constructed keyboard is rolled on to the stage in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, while in the lobby a box-office attendant drones: "Everything sold for this performance. All standing-room gone." When the hall is hushed, stubby Josef Hofmann ambles into view, his head cocked quizzically to one side, an appraising look in his keen brown eyes. Few notice the piano with its keys cut short to suit the short fingers...
...Josef Albers, formerly of the Bauhaus in Vienna, has been experimenting with the theory that a scale of design, similar in many ways to the musical scale, can be developed. A collection of his experimental drawings may be seen at the Fine Arts Guild in an exhibition entitled "Adventures in From Values...
...correspondent died in Ethiopia, Chicago Tribune's Will Barbour. Of him in Manhattan last week Emperor Haile Selassie's Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels II said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching...