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...droves of enthusiastic Nazis, including hundreds of members of Propaganda Minister Goebbels' "Strength through Joy" movement who had been granted specially reduced rates. The elaborate permanent stages formerly used for the Reinhardt Faust and Jedermann productions had been torn down, and the street name plates marking "Reinhardt Platz" and "Toscanini Hof" had been removed...
...Vienna, the state Burg-Theatre and Opera House, three Jewish-owned playhouses, the Society of the Friends of Music, the Vienna Symphony and the world-famed Vienna Philharmonic. Jewish Conductor Bruno Walter resigned as director of the Vienna Opera and as Nazis ripped down name plates on Max Reinhardt Platz in front of the Salzburg Festival Theatre, Jewish Regisseur Reinhardt severed his connections with the famed Salzburg festival...
...officers' club in the early days of the Hitler regime. There burly Schutzstaffel would show off their blonde, elegant ladies. Alois' little café prospered to such an extent that last week he opened a showy modern restaurant, the Alois Tearoom, at No. 3 Wittenberg-Platz, near Berlin's fashionable west end. "I call my place the Alois because I do not want to advertise with the name," Alois admitted, but three large profiles of the Führer hang on the walls inside...
...having trouble to get my TIME, an old reader of six years or more. I am enclosing the address of the newsdealer on Potsdamer Platz who was skinning me alive with a charge of Reichsmark .90 a copy. Can't you make it hot for that guy, or is he immune with such robbery...
Died. Ras Dedjazmatch Nassibu, 42, doughty Ethiopian General who for seven months fought Italy's invading General Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, April 27 et ante); of tuberculosis brought on by inhaling Italian poison gas; in Davos-Platz, Switzerland...