Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately Germany announced that it could make silk for a lady's stocking out of the lobster shells left from her supper party (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week Engineer Kurt Gerson of Berlin went further. He said he could make silk purses out of sows' ears, boars' ankles," potato peelings, toothpicks and all manner of garbage. In a large factory now being constructed under his specifications, kitchen refuse will be sifted for the cellulose ingredients of artificial silk or, if desired, gun cotton. The remaining refuse will be distilled for tar, charcoal, acetic acid...
TIME'S editors will probably never curb their Roman Catholic instincts enough to advertise, tritely "TIME?Kurt, Klear, Koncise...
Eighty-one musicians chosen from the theatres and cinema houses of Washington took the stage of Poll's Theatre, Washington, last week. It was the first concert of the Washington Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Kurt J. Hetzel, promised since early last summer to the only city of its size and development not possessing a permanent, flourishing orchestra. Conductor Hetzel, tall, slender, dynamic, had had his men together for only five ensemble rehearsals. Nevertheless they played creditably, excellently, an exacting if not unhackneyed program, which included Liszt's "Les Preludes," Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the Tannhauser Overture...
...Kurt Hetzel was formerly conductor of the Holttheater at Mannheim, of the Stadttheater of Strassburg. He was two years at the Royal Opera House at Munich, three years at the German Opera House at Czernowitz, Roumania. He has lived in Washington for less than a year...
...following is the Pops Concert program for tonight: 1. March, "National Masonic Club"Harlow 2. Overture, "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" Suppe 3. Elli, Elli Arranged by Jacchia Solo Trumpet Kurt Schmeisser 4. Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi 5. Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens 6. The Music Box Liadov 7. Air, "Non piu andrai" from "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Charles H. Bennett, Baritone 8. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 10. "Kogawa no Hotori ni," "By the Brook" Seigi Abe 11. Waltz, "Roses from the South" Strauss