Word: langs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supports the village band, its school, its hospital and, indirectly, its whole population. In 1930, Hannes Schneider visited Japan for one month at $10,000 to teach its royal family, army officers and students how to ski. This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers is the argument about the Arlberg v. Norwegian technique. In the U. S., where Erling Stromm, ski teacher at the Lake Placid Club...
...SCHNEIDER'S school at St. Anton, Arlberg, is probably the most famous center for ski instruction in the world. To him have come King Albert of Belgium; Germany's finance minister, Dr. Schacht; Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator of Austria, and notables from every continent. One of his assistant instructors, Otto Lang, the author of "Downhill Skiing" will extend the Arlberg System to the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington this winter...
...Downhill Skiing" is as concise without being too brief as any book of "How To Do This or That" can be. It is profusely illustrated with beautiful photographs of christianias, stem-turns, snow-plow-turns, and telemarks in their various stages of execution. Otto Lang emphasizes with the same insistence of his senior, Hannes Schneider, that a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of skiing is essential to maximum pleasure and safety. The fundamentals of the Arlberg technique are the "voriage" or "forward crouch," always keeping the heels on the skis, medium "edge" on turns with emphasis upon body movement...
This left the Great Powers rebuffed and helpless, unless they were willing to intervene. Only voice of note to speak up on this risky point was that of the Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...
...Return of Sophie Lang (Paramount) is a shipboard anecdote of a thief's (Gertrude Michael) redemption. Force opposing: Sir Guy Standing as Max Bernard, a scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry...