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...have turned a Wagnerian's hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side...
...your article, "Hold Barred," included in the Radio department of TIME, April 24, be it known to you, sirs, that song lyrics need not be guilty of lingual tergiversation with a Krafft-Ebing tinge in order to get themselves barred from the Great Chains...
Said Baldwin Treasurer William de Krafft: Each payment of principal and interest has been made on or before the day of its maturity...
...failed to spot this case of a snipper who did not know why he snipped girls' hair off, as body-fetichism. I was long a victim of this peculiar aberration, and only beat it when I identified it, as I did by chance when a copy of Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months before I was born my mother had been accidentally shorn of all her hair by a stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill...
...Hall is as follows: 1. March, "Les petits Matelots," Ganne 2. Overture, "Fra Diavolo," Auber 3. Waltz, "Girls of Baden," Komzak 4. Selection, "The Pink Lady," Caryll 5. Suite, Gitanella (a) Les Romani. (b) Sous les etoiles. (c) Sous le soleil. (d) Valse Boheme. 6. Largo, Handel Violin, Mr. Krafft; Harp, Mr. Schuecker; Organ, Mr. Marshall. 7. Selection, "La Boheme," Puccini 8. March Hongroise, Berlioz 9. Overture, "Phedre," Massenet 10. Waltz, "Barcarolle," Waldteufel 11. "Hussaren Ritt," Spindler 12. March, "Serenade," Herbert