The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1934, Page 7

Americans —Hanfstaengl, Opera Singers, Professors Thi: seven the third of a series daily articles. By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, Sepi. 13.—High in the councils of the N movament, 1 bound to Adolf Hitler by tie intimat> friendship, is an Amer-} uate with f ly | -Ernst F. Sedg-| of of wick Hansfstaengzl. And high in the faculty of Ber- lin university is an American pro- fessor from the middle west who gives courses on American politics and institutions—Charles Emil Stangeland, Fh.D. Two other Americans, Suzanne . Fischer: 4nd; Charles Kulimann have “sung ' themselves into the hearts of German music lovers-and occupy the highest rung of u\n‘ musical ladder as regular memuers of the cast of the State Opera here. Miss Fischer, a native of Sutton, West Virginia, was gradual from the Cincinflati Cor ¢ of Music. Winning a s 1 p of the Julliard Foundation of New York, she spent 1925-26 New Fontainebleau and in Germar in 1929 ted out mod y the Little Opera Company Substitute ‘Butterfly’ In 1931 she was again awarded a Juillard Foundation olarship and followed her teacher, Paul Reim- ers, to Baden-Baden An audition at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden netted her an en- gagement there, but her roles were unimportant. Then, one day, the prima donna who was to sing “Madame Butterfly” was ill. The general manager tore around seek- ing a substitute. Someone suggest- ed Suzanne Fischer. Without an orchestra . rehearsal she was a success that night. Part of her audience wept, and Hitler led the applause. ThEH engagements poured in. Sang For Kroll Opera Kullmann came to Germany in 1929. He had taken the pre-medical course at Yale, then someone “dis- covered” him. He ftried for and won a Juillard Foundation scholar- ship which was renewed for three}c years. After a year at Fontaine- bleau, he came to Berlin. The Kroll Opera, now defunct, needed a Pinkerton for “Madame Butterfly.” Kullmann asked for an audition and was engaged, not only to sing this role, but to finish the 1929-30 sea-on. When the Kroll Opera closed the Opera Unter den Linden took him over. He starred in Traviata, Rigolctto, Eugene Onegin and in Natons Haggle THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1934. ade Good Abroad “Win” s Who in Germany . Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (left), Harvard graduate and r art thopkeeper in New York, Suzanne Fischer, who hails from Suttcn, W. Va, wore thic makcup when she appeared as Choche-san in “Madame Butterfly” at the State Opera in Berlin. She is a regular member of, the ¢ Butterfly. is ough Rider of German poli- Madame commct‘ the * was automatically renewed. tics.” A movietone, “Die Sonne Geht Reichswehr troops arrested Hit- The Sun Is Rising) ,made ler in Hanfstaengl's villa near Mun- him popular with the German 1o beer cellar putsch of 1923 Both Hanfstaengl's wife, the former Miss Helen Niemayer, whose arents lived in New York,sand his mother’s family were Americans. perienced Diplemacy Returned To Harvard Hanfy” or “Putzi” Hanfstaengl turned to Cambtidge last'¥une to t the marshal of the class of ‘09 at the twenty-fifth reunion. | Active as an undergraduate, the . Stangeland came to the Uni- lack-haired foreign press chief of | versity of Berlin after wide ex- the Nazi party was a member of | perience in American universities Harvard’s freshman c wrote [as well as the diplomatic field. llege operettas and led the Gep{ Born in Sheldahl, Towa, he at- | in y. tended Augusburg Seminary, Min- Later, in New York, where he‘n‘apalh then successively the Uni- openad an art shop, Hanfstaengl | versities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, was a member of the Harvard club. | Berlin and Columbia. At Washing- American training caused|ton State college he became pro- Hanfstaengl to enter politics here. | fessor of political economy. In 1921 he met the fascisti leader ! Wanderlust seized him and he of Bavaria, Adolf Hitler, and com-|roved over France, Italy, Russia pared him to Theodors Roosevelt|and Germany. He served as secre- whom he had known as the fath-;mr_v of the American legation at er of his classmate, Theodore La Paz, Bolivia, in 1912-1913 and Ruusewh Jr. Hi r seemed to him'of th» American emhassy at Lon- man element at the uni Butterly Over Sale of Railroad Top; Soviet artillery; below, Japanese soldiers making arrests at railroad station in recent outbreak. The controversy waged by Soviet pan-dominated Manchukuo over the selling price of the Chinese Eastern railway, traversing Man- chukuo’s great plains, has reached a bitter stage with Nipponese militarists shouting threats to the U. 8. 8. R. and being rebuked in biting diplomatic Russia and Ja- | language by Stalin’s officials in Moscow. The road was built by czarist Russia in the last century to obtain a better route to its port of Vladivostok than the trans-Siberian line afforded. The difference between the price Russia asks and Tokio desires to | pay is about $12,000,000, where he had been hiding after | By I HAWN'T A-MAKIN FUN AT THINGS WHUT HADNT FUN OF, BUT AIN'T NOWAYS FITTEN HANG UP THEM PICTERS AFORE UTTLE FOLKS T ACTUSSES’ AN’ GIVE 'EM NOTIONS MORE PROJECTS' APPROVED; WORK TO START SO0N fuecretary Wallace Ap-| | proves Projects in Alas- t ka Totalmg $|75 000 Approval of nddmanzfl road con- “:tmrtion in National Forest areas {in Alaska aggregating $175,000 by | Secretary Wallace of the Depart- | ment oT“Agriculture, was announced |today by M. D. Williams, District Engineer of the United States Bu= {reau of Public Roads. Five projects are embraced on the program. i our of them are Scutheast Al- {aska projects and the fifth is on Kenai Peninsula. Work is expect- ed to start on all of them this fall. To improve and surface section two of Tongass Highway, Ketchi- kan to Wards Cove, $35,000 was al- lotted. This work will be done by the Bureau without calling for bids or letting a contract. Work will start in a few days, Mr. Williams said. Five thousand dollars were al- lotted for improvement of a section of the Salmon River Highway near the International houndary. For clearing and grubbing the Halibut Point-Sitka section of Sitka Highway, the sum of $35000 was allotted. Ten thousand dollars were approved for constructing and sur- facing of a section of Kake High- way between Kake dnd Germack Creek. To initiate work on the co-called' “missing link” project on Moose Pass Highway, Secretary Wallace approved an allotment of $35,000 to be used in clearing and grubbing the Lawing-Moose Pass section. In addition to these sums $10,000 was set up. for emergency . work and $30,000 for location and sur? vey. Contracts will be let for clearing and grubbing on the Seward and Sitka projects as soon as plans can be completed and necessary right of way clearances obtained, Mr. Williams said. ‘“We hope to have the entire program under way this season,” he added. don in 1914-15, returned to New. York and became an expert at the bureau of municipal research. For a time he was state educa- tional expert and economic adviser in North Dakota. But eventually he returned to Europe, joined the faculty of Berlin university in 1923 and has been giving courses there ever since in American economics, politics and social conditions. He gives one series of lectures mch semester in Eng] , unique far a German university. .- WAY TRAFFIC During the Fdir from 7 pm. to. 1 am. no southbound traific will |be permitted on E Street from |12th Street to Willoughby Avenue ‘4Hcme Grocery Corner). C. J. DAVIS Chief of Police. — e HEALTH IS WEALTH Famous Soap Lake Mineral Baths. Drugless Institute. —ady. CN ‘—r;;dv. 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