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...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
...when he was 17, he entered the guttural, drill-sharp barrack routine of the German Imperial Army. Then came the four grey years of World War I. After that Germany was a shambles of street fighting, depression, inflation. For flat-nosed, flabby-faced Theodor Eicke, the world was horrible; the only meaning in it was to claw his way over the others and reach the top of the muck heap...
...France and Russia he successively commanded the SS Death's Head Panzer Division, and an Elite Guard armored-infantry Division. Last week a Russian bullet returned Obergruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke to the muck...
...young man, Joseph Retinger knew his great compatriot Theodor Joseph Konrad Korzeniowski intimately, especially from 1909 to the outbreak of World War I. Now a member of the Polish Government in London, Retinger writes of those days in the sharp, graceful dialect of an old-fashioned boulevardier of letters. His book is illustrated by the brilliant Polish draftsman Feliks Topolski (TIME, Jan. 4). All of which makes for no mean addition to Conradiana...
Among the other pictures scheduled to be shown by the Film Society is "The Passion of Joan of Are," a silent film which ranks with some of the best contemporary sound films. This picture, directed by Carl-Theodor Dreyer, was produced by La Societe Generale de Films...