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...Tristan und Isolde" is this evening's opera and should prove as fine here as it has in New York during the past winter...
...suggestions, means would be found to make them do so, made the German film industry virtually a Government monopoly. Into control of UFA, which makes about 30 of Germany's annual output of 200 feature films, went a Government-backed group headed ostensibly by the Deutsche Bank und Disconto-Gesellschaft. Out went Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, first minister of national economy in the Hitler regime, who has served as a member of the board of UFA since 1927. Once run largely by Jews, like the U. S. cinema, the German cinema industry has waned rapidly since 1933, lately failed...
...last week how blunt-how surcharged with what was evidently a feeling of Might-were the summaries given to correspondents in Rome and Berlin of what Mussolini and Göring talked about and agreed on during the business intervals of a round of Italian fetes for General-Oberst und Frau Göring, she the plump, onetime "State Actress of Prussia," Emmy Sonnemann. It amounted to this...
...Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck (Leo G. Carroll) at Zurich. With Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista) fluttering about in round-eyed adulation. Minna - jealous, nagging, nerve-fraying epitome of an artist...
...three Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result...