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...voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them even knew the name. I rang up every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since Destinn. She ought to be one day the greatest Brünnhilde and Isolde of her generation...
...promise job security, no pay cuts and the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. Strength Through Joy provides sports, inexpensive cinema, theatre, military band concerts, exhibitions, holiday trips on its four ocean liners. Last week in Hamburg 18-year-old Lieschen Kiesling, pretty factory worker from a Leipzig spinning mill, broke a bottle of German champagne over the fifth big liner, christened it Robert Ley. Master of ceremonies at the microphone was Reichsführer Adolf Hitler himself...
...pelvis (see cut). Gynecologist Howard Kelly taught Artist Brödel this phase of medical art. Dr. Kelly-just turned 80 and the only survivor of the Four Doctors-attended last week's dinner. It was Dr. Kelly who got Max Brödel to leave his native Leipzig for Baltimore in 1894 to illustrate Kelly's Operative Gynecology. That and other books by Dr. Kelly and Johns Hopkins doctors kept the artist busy until 1911. Then Dr. Kelly's associate, Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen, persuaded the late President Henry Walters of the Atlantic Coast Line...
...Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Judge Ben Lindsey. Drizzling skies kept the bonfire from blazing, but the smoke of it still stinks in democratic nostrils. Last week, with plans afoot for the next session of the International Congress of Book Publishers, to be held this year at Leipzig, 48 U. S. publishers held their noses as one man, decided to send no delegates...
...Nazi Werner von Blom-berg-59, a widower for five years and father of five children-took a second wife, but for 24 hours the regimented German press was not able to learn even the bride's name. Finally the honeymooners were found, strolling through the zoo in Leipzig, the bride's name revealed: Erika Gruhn, 28-year-old daughter of a Hanover carpenter...