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...opera turned out to be a sort of musical and dramatic palindrome.* Called Hin und zurück ("There and back"), it walked up to a tragic climax, then backed away from it like an ambassador in a throne room. Its hero comes home on his wife's birthday, gives her a present, discovers a letter from her lover, pulls a pistol, shoots her. While two ambulance surgeons carry out the body, he moans that life means nothing more to him, gulps a cup of tea and jumps out the window...
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 77, published in Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...
...Chicago in 1908. A professorial friend of Professor Woodrow Wilson, he went frequently to the White House, in Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson Davis, Statesmen of the Old South, Expansion and Conflict, The Cotton Kingdom. He was a strong and early champion of the idea that German imperialism cannot be wholly blamed for the War. Though a Democrat...
Members of the great German learned society Kaiser Wilhelm Gesallschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften went to the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, walked down Faradayweg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research. There they heard Professor-Doktor Wilhelm Eitel, physical-chemist, director of the silicate research, speak of "one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade." They surveyed the discovery, a small metal disc which would do what scientists have been predicting and working towards for years ?make electricity out of sunlight...
December 9: "Amphitryon, von der Antike bis zur dentschen Romantik: Plautus, Moliere, Kleist...