Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before young Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) is old enough to go abroad to study under the new psychologists in Vienna, he has had a thorough apprenticeship for his work. He has loved the neurotic, beautiful Cassandra Tower (Betty Field) only to have her murdered by her father (Claude Rains), his revered teacher, who in turn kills himself. Dr. Tower's papers explain why: Cassandra's mother had gone insane; Cassandra herself had shown the first signs of dementia praecox...
Last of the great line of Central European symphonists, Mahler, a Bohemian Jew, has been dead for 30 years, but among musicians his name is still good for a dogfight. In Vienna, for Nazi reasons, Gustav Mahlerstrasse has been renamed Meistersingerstrasse-rendered Gustav Meistersingerstrasse by subversive Viennese. In the U.S., Mahler partisans are organized as intensely as movie-fan clubs. One group awards a Mahler medal to outstanding torchbearers (Philadelphia's Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky, German Exile Bruno Walter-Mahler's disciple). Commentator at the broadcasts is Czech Author Franz Werfel, third husband...
Norway. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who went from the U.S. to Norway last spring and apparently got stuck there, is rumored to have sung, or to be scheduled to sing, in Vienna's run-down opera. The rumor is probably not true, unless Flagstad wished to make some gesture of sympathy toward the unhappy Viennese. The more powerful Berlin opera, which would be flattered to get Flagstad, is not popular among Norwegians. When it played in Oslo, the opera was sold out, but the house was empty. Norwegians had bought all the tickets, torn them...
Violinist Hubermann was the first musician of renown to refuse to play in Hitler's Germany. He has written two books on plans for a United States of Europe. A onetime resident of Vienna, he believes that Germany and Austria should be separated. In an interview after his recent arrival in Manhattan, he danced a Viennese waltz to demonstrate his conviction that Poles and Russians play Viennese music without the "beery heaviness" of the Germans...
...Before Hitler "half of the lawyers and one-fourth of the physicians of Berlin were Jewish" and in Vienna the 165,000 Jews (8.6% of the city) had "62% of the lawyers, 62.7% of the dentists, 47.2% of all physicians, 28.6% of the professors." In 1930 it is estimated that the Jews' share of the German income and aggregate wealth "was four times that of the Jewish population ratio. . . . Today there are no Jewish business enterprises in Germany, no Jewish lawyers, craftsmen, actors or musicians. . . . With the exception of the manual labor which they perform upon a virtually slave...