Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 30-International Mental Hygiene Exhibition; at Dresden, Germany...
...International Congress on Mental Hygiene; in Washington...
...lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their way to hidden destinies...
...amount of posing could have built and maintained for Stokowski the sound prestige which he has everywhere. This he owes to the great mental energy which years ago made him learn German, unaided, from a grammar; which on his recent Oriental tour led him to travel for weeks under the most primitive conditions to listen to native music unadorned; which enables him so to concentrate on his music that in his concerts he never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind...
...International Congress on Mental Hygiene; in Washington...