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...models. But it was such highly dramatic events as Germany's Peasants' War, the 1840 Silesian Weavers' Revolt and the women's dance around the guillotine inspired by Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities that gave her the subjects to express her greatest themes. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her work "art of the gutter," refused to award her a gold medal...
...rooms, library, nursery). This economy measure, Niemeyer confidently predicts, will give apartment dwellers who will have to walk up or down to their front doors the "desirable illusion" of living in a two-story building. ¶ From Berlin's Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, going up on the ruined foundations of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Main feature: a tall, concrete spire (see cut), which Berliners are calling "The Spiked Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed...
Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache...
This writer, then a teenager, well remembers his residence and travels in Germany at that time, and how he had to resort to extreme measures to wear as a subtle flattery to the Germans the Schnurrbart, made so popular by the Kaiser. Each and every night at bedtime, one soaked the mustache with a dressing (which hardened when dry), then applied the Schnurrbart binder made of netlike material, shaped to go under the nose and extend well toward the ears, held flat and tight by elastic bands behind the ears. After applying, each side was lifted in turn...
...wouldbes of Rome's fleabag Hotel Imperatore, the Countess Sanziani exudes the imposing aura of a famed once-was. For La Sanziani. as Carmela soon learns, was once a legendary courtesan, mistress of a d'Annunzio-like poet, playmate of a Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...