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Walter Gieseking, beginning a transcontinental jaunt this week, will bolster a touring pianistic lineup which is topped by Rachmaninoff and includes able Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Brailowsky. Hulking, oddly demure of face. Pianist Gieseking will reach California in December. There he likes to relax by hunting butterflies. Son of a German physician and entomologist, Gieseking has one of the largest privately owned collections of butterflies in Europe. He has detected resemblances between California butterflies and European species, believes their forebears migrated by way of Asia and Alaska thousands of years ago. Once Gieseking found six caterpillars in Berkeley, took them...
...RADIUM - Rudolf Brunngraber - Random House ($2.50). Stiltedly-written story of the discovery and world-exploitation of radium...
...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...
...traditional, the nattily dressed Realmleader entered to the strains of his favorite march, the Badenweiler, minced his way to the speaker's stand through a lane of Storm Troopers as wave upon wave of throaty cheers thundered down the long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf...
...life, the Archduke Rudolf was a rake and good amateur naturalist, organized a historical survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was rated as a dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by his father's spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening...