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Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...
Good or bad, an orchestra was finally got together. By combing through Havana's military bands, Stokowski found 55 men who had been known to blow horns. To sing Schiller's Ode to Joy, which concludes the symphony, he hired a Cuban chorus of 150 who knew no German. Then 21 string players and a tenor who knew German were flown from New York by chartered plane. And Stokowski triumphantly assured Cubans that the sublime music of Beethoven would be conducted by the sublime Stokowski-three days late...
Phony Culture. Author Hauser was raised in old-world Weimar, home of Goethe and Schiller, and one of German culture's most sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the epitome of decadence. When World War I broke out, he and his school friends were deliriously happy at the thought of "action, motor cars and planes, dynamic life...
...reminded," said a radio commentator in Russian-controlled Berlin "of the lines of the famous poem Die Glocke by Schiller: "Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen" ("And from the ruins new life blossoms...
...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had disappeared on an iron-age pilgrimage never dreamed of by Poet Matthew Arnold. Also missing from its place beside Goethe in the city's Friedhof (cemetery) was the coffin of Goethe's great friend and fellow poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...