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...magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile's ears burn. When the recording was issued in Germany this summer, German Wagnerphiles' ears burned in vain for the parts recorded in pre-Anschluss Austria. They found they had to take their Walküre without their Sieglinde. Luckier...
Executive Reorganization."To carry out any Twentieth-Century program, we must give the executive branch of the Government Twentieth-Century machinery to work with. . . . For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers...
...royal procession. King George came first as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadiers, with the bright blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest. Behind rode his aides: the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, the Earls of Athlone and Harewood and Prince Arthur of Connaught, behind them again, a patchwork of bright color, gilt and jangle, all the foreign military attaches. Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled. Princess Elizabeth waved prettily...
...given any thought to filling vacant posts in his official family. On only two points was he at all definite: He urged the U.S. people this year as always to celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November. He expressed his firm intention to regroup and reorganize his patchwork of Government departments and alphabetic agencies. On all other subjects he was amiable, encouraging, glad to give everyone free rein to make plans, entirely noncommittal as to what he would do about them...
...still alive, the novel represented U. S. Fascism as making headway in 1936. Last week, with no such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup...