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WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1938.
Horrific Films
For three years Vienna was the only home I had. The solt German they speak there, with Its peculiar, expressive words, became a second native tongue to me, no natural that when I returned to England I used Viennese phrases in the middle of English sentences.
Then later I went to Berlin ex- pecting to find the people there the same as the Viennese, I had been told that, after all, the Germans and the Antsirkaps wore, In fact, One Bace.
H
F TITLET has just said co nyala. And he's talking through his hat; though it probably takes a foreignér to see
It.
They are as different from the Gernians as the Irish, the Scots, and the Welsh from the English.
The Vleesc are Vienna, More songs have been writer about Vienna than any elty in the world; but then it is probably the most beautiful city in the world.
It was built by a people Bving in
ellimate with northern winterand southern sumpters, In Vienna the Nordle and Latin cul-
tures meet; the fery Latin tem- perament is tempered with Nordic and Hlav influencen.
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They are lazy. artistic, witty and casual. They behave though they were French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian all at once.
THE Viennese dialect In
a masterpiece of fazl- ness in speech. Con- sonnnis are omitted, vowels changed, French and Italian words used because nobody in Vienna has ever bothered to translate them into 11gh German.
They have the best manners of anybody in the world. They nd- dress women as "Gracious lady," and kiss their hands. The Ger- mans despise the Austrians for these le gestures. But then the Germans do not know the ine in- Ing of good manners. They are the rudest race on earth,
In many ways Vienna : Bike Dublin. Perhaps that's why I took to it at once.
The city is architecturally beau- ul; the people are poor; and they have the Dubliner's charm and friendliness towards strangers.
But the Viennese are not 50 eu stinate, nor so stupidly violent as the Irish can be. Or maybe they've never had to be.
Peuple of Vienna have not changed. They have a moky called Gemütlichkelt-an um roure latable word which means clear. easy goingness, comfortablema and just Viennese-neas.
When the Vienneer lose quality they lose everything. Laven
Ten Days That
Shook The World
the Russian Re- THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY of
volution is being celebrated in many parts of the world, and by many communities which see in that world-shaking event the prelude to a realisation of all their hopes.
in their worst days their Gemüt- lichkeit remained.
When I went to Vienna there were 230,000 kronen to the pound. Shoes were made of brown paper. * coffice
drunk by the majority
of the people was made of malt. A young school-teacher who taught me German was so poor that she could afford only one ment a day -two slices of black bread with lard and a piece of sausage.
My violin teacher played in a cinema for his living. I was his only pupil. There was no money in Vienna for private lessons.
That was in my arst winter. When summer came, and Austria was given a League of Nationa joan. the suicide figures fell and Vienna was Vienna again.
There is one typical Viennese anecdote about a would-be suicide In those days when everything was ersatz and made of something else. A man tried to hang himself: the rupe broke, an ersatz made of paper.
горе
He tried to stab himself; the kulle bent-an ersatz knife made of cardboard,
He tried to shoot himself: 1 was an ersatz bullet, made of wood.
He decided to go on living and drank a cup of coffee to steady his nerves. He fell down dead: ersalz collec.
WAS
Thu
The summer came. Viennese, still poor, put fresh Howers in the baskets round th lamp-posts in the Ring. They h
dways done this in the old days In the wide, itme-lined street which encircles the Inner City.
The fountains worked again! there is never any shortage of water in Vienna. It is best in foun-
tains. When it is drunk It pro- duces a high percentage of goitre cates among the inhabitants.
The chestnuts bloomed in the Prater, the vast amusement park with a Big Wheel and scente rail- Bags, and beer gardens and cates.
their holiday. Young men and women old men smoking black. curved Italian cigars crowded the street cars on their way to the country.
Some of them went out into the Vienna woods, where there are svild strawberries and more whipped cream. Or to swim in the gardens of the old Imperial Palace of Schönbrun, or to lle half naked in the sun on the banks of lake called the Ganschlufel- the goose-heap.
N the evenings, before the end of June, there was the opera, Bat- Listini was singing there, and Lotte Lehmann, Elizabeth Schumann, Tauber and Jeritza. Tilly Losch was in the corps do ballet, just graduating to solo parts. She was sixteen thien, and full of ambitions to go to America-not as a nim star, but as a dancer..
A year ago I met Richard Strauss in London and we talked of those days. It was odd, he 75, I not 30, to be sighing for "dic- schine Tagen "-the beautiful old days of 1921. But Vienna had that fascination.
The Austrian State bullt Strauss a villa in the Belvedere. Schusch- nigg is under "house arrest" there
now.
Then, as the summer wore.on and the new wine was pressed, Vietina went up into the hills again to drink it and sing and dance-the old tunes about their beloved city of dreams and music. Yes, Vienna was a little like it is in the movies. Poverty and suffer- Ing never altered the character of the people.
Perhaps there was not so much cream as white of egg in the coffee. perhaps there was not so much money for beer and the new wine. But there were flowers in the lamp-posts, and fountains. the chestnuts dowered, and the lime trees stll grew in the Ring. And there were special performances at the Opern for the workers. and fine houses for them to live in. There were no classes, no racial distinctions, no Aryans and non- Aryans no foreigners
even, like the American consul, who always sneezed when he got drunk.
We were all fellow-citizens, and day, write letters, read papers - we sang about our precious Vienna from every country in Europe, play in our cups and out of them.
friends until you are turned out early next morning.
VIENNESE café la soine- thing all on its own. For the price of one- of coffee with whipped cr.am floating on the top-the Turks taught the Viennese how to make coffee-you can sit there all
The action of the Chief Con- sor in making the representa- tions to film distributors which led to the withdrawal of the news-reef sequences depicting the gruesome suicide of a New York youth who fell 17 storeys | to his death is commendable.
Incalculably more dangerous than gangster and similar films so readily censured in Hongkong is the film which exhibits thei gruesome. There has been a distressing increase of evidence that nervous and hysterical con- ditions of mind are being pro- duced in young people by scenes - of brutal violence and hideous suffering. From time to time the news reels exhibit pictures of accidents and death which ter- rify and haunt a sensitive child, and also have adverse effects on TT is interesting and perhaps in the existing regime, Kerensky, was chess, leave messages for your adults. Some restraint in this structive. after 21 years, to glance faced with an impossible task. department is urgently needed.back to those terrible ten days in On October 25 the Congress of Petrograd and Moscow, when die fate Soviets met in Petrograd and Mos- of Russia hung in the balance. A Record For 6939
In the summer of 1917, the last Two eminent men of science semblance of ordered government in NOW Lenin Judged the time ripe to Russia was vanishing." In Petrograd emerge. He appeared on the plat have just given us their estim-and Moscow, Soviets had been form-form, and took charge of the situation ates of what mankind hased and were passing Bolshevik re- which was now in a condition of in-
When Mascagni came to Vienna achieved and of the mysterics solutions. Kerensky, the autocratle credible flux.
he entered the Imperial Café next at this hour was In the History of existence and the forces of head of a directory, was desperately
to the hotel where Hitler stayed, trying to atave off the Imminent [making. the universe which are still un- breakdown.
and was cheered by the people Lenin, with truc statesmanship, solved. Prof. Einstein has com-
In the background was Lenin. The instinctively seized upon the two there until he had conducted the
Intermezzo from posed a record of the civilisation revolution
Cavalleria" of 1917 found him in fundamental factors in the situation with the café band. of 1938 for the edification of the Switzerland, frantically trying to They could be comprised in two
And on Sundays the workers had human race in G939. It will be get back to Petrograd, where the words: Peace; Land, buried in the grounds of the situation invited him with open arms.
He New York World's Fair and no in a closed railway carriage and ar
was smuggled through Germany profane hands are to open the rived in Petrograd on April 4.
But the time was not ripe. Lenin imperishable casket till 5,000 years have passed. Sir James went into hiding.
There followed the July days of Jeans impresses upon us the un- terror. All was ehnos and confusion, certainty of our knowledge of Everything
was disintegrating and the nature of things, despite all crumbling, and the nominal head of the labours of science. Poster- ity will, we hope, respect us the
row.
was essential to keep out Peace Germany's armies at all cost,
The seizure of the land by the peasantry was essential to place the "teeming millions" behind the Soviets,
The necessary decrees were pussed, and the Soviet of Peoples Commis suries elected Lenin as the head and
His hour had come. chief,
With the support of the peasantry, the Soviet was master of the situa- tion and Lenin wan the master of the
more when it reads the judg-musses in intellect and charac- Soviet. ment of the great philosopher of ter to "the few who produce
Beside blm was Trotsky who, at relativity that our time is rich something valuable for the com-his stage, first gave evidence of his military genlus in organising the in inventive minds. Will it munity." We are certainly not military revolutionary committee and think highly of us for the all equal, but ability, even in the creation of a general staff for achievements which he com-genius, in productive work is no the Bolshevik Revolution. memorates, of using power to guarantee of practical wisdom shook the World.
Thus began the Ten Days' which save human muscles, of learning and good feeling. The power of
to fly and to send wireless mes-leadership is unfortunately often
*
Was
sages round the world? Five bestowed by nature on those who W WHILE Kerensity and his Ministers thousand years hence these do not know where to lead the instinct of
remained inactive, Trotsky, with triumphs may seem as elemen- There is little doubt that pos-moved. He ordered the Petrograd born strategist, tary as the invention of the turity, as Prof. Einstein hopes, garrison to stond to arms in defence wheel and the windmill and the will read what he says of usof the committee. The garrison com- discovery that man could sall if it does rend-with proud and plied. across the sea seem to us, and justified superiority. We shall assured. Kerensky,
From that moment, suCCESS their inventore may be equally seem to them as ill-equipped as and boldness, demanded dictatorial with courage forgotten. Yet Prof. Einstein ancient Egypt and Babylon powers to cope with the revolt. does us scant Justice. We have seem to us. The homily of Sir The difference between Kerensky certainly not solved all the pro-James Jeans is not directly comed; Trotsky acted, and seized tele- and Trotsky was this: Kerensky talk- blems of production and distrl-forting to our self esteem. Heraphs, telephones and all Govern bution, but it misrepresents the warns us that In spite of all its mest offers, Lenin appeared, to find fact to say that everyone lives progress science cannot be sure that Trotsky hnd secured control. in fear of being eliminated by whether space is finite or in- and admired this actute general.
No wonder Lenin was grateful to the economic cycle. At the finite, cannot tell whether elther blackest hour of recent depres-term has a meaning. So little? Kerensity left, ostensibly to bring Early on the morning of November sions there were many millions has humanity yet learnt of even back tronpa from the front to quell more people in the world with a material reality. He opens be Lenin and Trotsky were in command the revolution. Ife was too late. comfortable standard of living fore us vistas of time and space and in control.
than ever before in its history. beyond the power of the mind The Revolution was necomplished Tragically true is the record to grasp and declares that in the-in ten days, The Red Terror wai that the menace of war and an- far stellar regions a mere scrap series of Stalin "purges," it continues about to begin. Judging from the xiety for the future must occupy of matter sends out tremendous after 20 years every thoughtful mind. But energy- All this leaves U#: As for Lenin, the Father of the Re- posterity will surely be too wise blind as primitive man to what valution. his place in history in to accept Prof. Einstein's ac- the universo really in and our secure. count of the reason. He finds human part in it. Will they see on the day? Was it all worth while it in the inferiority of the more clearly in 69397
But Trotsky-what are his thoughts
-for him?
Richard Straus resigned
And always there is music. When the directorship of the Slute Opera, 1 was a front page story across
columns. When Pucca died four Paper were printed with black
borders.
--To-day's Thought-------- FOR the earth that breeds the
treca,
Breeds cities, too, and sym- phontes.
--JOHN JIAIX WHEELOCK.
B
EADING the news this week, I have wondered jot. My greatest friend, who was iny teacher during those three years in Vienna, is safe, for he was in Holland when all this started.
But the others? The doctors. the lawyers, the writers, the artists and musicians, those people of whom Vienna was proud because they were Wienerisch born and bred, halra to one of the finest cultural inheritances in the world. what of them?
How often, how many times more must this question be naked? How often, too, must the answer be the same?
Nobody knOWE, And yet I feel somehow, because I want to feel that way, that Vienna hasn't satd good-night to the world nor the world "Good-night, Vienna."
Just Auf Wiedersehen, perhaps.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Lp, 1920
By Lichty
10-18
"I simply hate marquerades! You can't breathe a word of. scandal to anyone!”.
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