Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author of this startling play is the late Hans Chlumberg, an Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece...
...rushing to Sweden for a lecture engagement, Dr. Schacht had cancelled a previous engagement to speak last week at the opening of Leipzig's famed spring Trade Fair. His place was taken by a less intense but much more potent man, Dr. Hans Luther, today President of the Reichsbank...
...went great sighs of bondholders' relief as Dr. Luther observed at Leipzig in his sober, careful...
Price War. Gloom stalked through Leipzig as exhibitors at the Fair cut prices (and each others' throats) without stimulating any impressive volume of sales. Canny foreign buyers, interviewed by the Leipzig press, admitted grudgingly, "Prices are a little lower," held back their orders with evident intent to jump in when prices touched bottom...
...Manhattan Toscanini is even more of a god this year than last. After he left last April he won unprecedented triumphs in Paris, Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, London (TIME, May 19, 26). He conducted Tannhauser and Tristan at Bayreuth, gave new life to the declining Wagner festivals, was asked to take over the artistic direction. But despite his successes he came back last week depressed, lonely. In Bayreuth he was deeply affected by the death of Siegfried Wagner. After his own Philharmonic, the Bayreuth Orchestra was a constant source of displeasure and disappointment to him. And on July 13 large, capable...