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...polled only 48% of the total votes cast. The other 52% was shared among the Liberal and Christian Democratic parties. Most striking fact: the center of SED support had shifted to the country; the land reform program had pulled an unexpectedly heavy leftist vote. In industrial cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Plauen, Zwickau, traditional cradles of German leftism, the labor vote split wide open. But power remained in the hands of the Russians and their pet party, which, will control 22,494 out of Saxony's 29,356 municipal offices. In Thuringia's elections this week...
Soon the Dresden press began to howl that her dances were un-Nordic. Wigman moved on to Leipzig, was still dancing a little, teaching a little, when the Russians found her. Russian reporters interviewed her and respectfully printed her opinions on the dance, but obviously still preferred their own graceful classic ballet to Wigman's somewhat gymnastic, angular and austere style. Russian authorities readily gave her permission to go on lecture tours and to reopen her school. The time has come, she announced last week, to start building the great, warming fire...
Mary Wigman, whose modern German dancing made a noise in the U.S. in the early '30s, emerged from long obscurity, but only a little. "Since 1942 I live in Leipzig," she wrote a U.S. friend. ". . . The Nazis did not like me! Here I live among ruins and have a tiny school of my own. . . . Hard life, but wonderful to be alive, after all! No money . . . nothing...
...Leipzig, in 1932, while he was conducting a rehearsal, a railing back of him gave way and he fell over backwards, striking his head severely at the base of the skull. A brain tumor operation in 1939 left him partially paralyzed. Then in 1941 he registered at a Rye, N.Y. sanatorium for a rest. The second day he walked out, and the sanatorium director notified the police, who issued a widely publicized nine-state alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane...
...Leipzig's great railway station was smashed and burned in the bombings, but its charred walls were hung last week with red bunting, evergreen boughs and Socialist slogans. Tens of thousands of Germans, transported on 95 special trains, poured through it to Leipzig's first fair since 1941. Other Germans came, as visitors to the Leipzig Fair had come 700 years ago, by horse & wagon and a foot...