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...publishing House of Hanfstaengl, is a Harvard man, once kept a smart Manhattan art shop. Because Hitler and Hanfstaengl are inseparable, constantly flying about the Fatherland together in the Chancellor's private plane, all Germany was flabbergasted last autumn when the Party's first super-film, Horst Wessel "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was abruptly withdrawn on the day of its scheduled premiere. Nazi critics present at previews had hailed it as "the German screen's greatest masterpiece," and "a glorious tribute to our Nazi Martyr Horst Wessel." Last week Dr. Hanfstaengl emerged triumphant when...
Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features...
...caused by the audience's bellowing ''Deutschland uber Alles" after the first post-War Festival in 1924, officials distributed printed slips stating: "Our leader wishes the audience to refrain at the close of the opera from singing 'Deutschland uber Alles' and the 'Horst Wessel' song [Nazi anthem] or indulging in any other kind of patriotic demonstration, in respect for the works of the master himself...
Married. John Lord Booth, son of U. S. Minister to Denmark Ralph Harman Booth; and Winifred May Wessel, daughter of Chilean Minister to Denmark Harry Wessel; in Copenhagen...
...article quotes at length from diaries and letters written by Lords and Ladies of various periods. One letter begins dearest creature", another describes the "Horried torter" of a lady's dying lap-dog. Sam Weller's "wessel of wrath" finds full vindication in a diary of the sixteenth century which discusses "welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed...