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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Leading lady. Yum Yum owner of producing company is Miho nagato Center. She thinks this version on which she has worked More than a year Best yet Moke up costumes were no problem for Tokyo company giving first japanese production of Gilbert and Sullivan satire on the formerly divine emperor. Hen the Gilbert and Sullivan satire on. Japan s emperor was first produced in England in 1885 it almost caused an International incident. The i japanese government made an official protest to great Britain. Who the Japa embassy wanted to know did the English think they were taking the e of the Mikado the lord and emperor of the land of the Geisha girls lit vain. Though Japan s indignation cooled off somewhat soon after in was t Itil this year that a. Production of the operetta played by a japanese Case attempted for a japanese audience. The operetta has been so Well received its Tokyo audiences that the original three Day presentation has been exited for weeks and the usually quiet reserved japanese Are laughing out of at Gilbert s Patter songs and encoding Sullivan music. The company reducing die opera at Tokyo s Hibiya Public Hall is owned by the leading Sidy  Miho thinks that this is the first time the Mikado has properly ," she says it is set in Japan it is about Japan and so Why should t it be better when performed by japanese Amer in Tokyo Haven t disputed her claim they Are not permitted to attend. Goebbels diaries reveal the thoughts of a fanatical propagandist. Saga of Kings Row continued in a second volume the Goebbels diaries. Edited translated and with an introduction by Louis Lochner. 575 up. Doubleday new York. $4. The supposed Genius and at the same time All the evilness of Paul Joseph Goebbels probably the fore most propagandist of our time is revealed Jyh this Book through his own hand. His diaries ably edited and trans lated by Louis Lochner an associated press correspondent who lived in be Linfor Twenty years show the superficiality and the shallowness of this particular nazi mind. Goebbels Jias been called by some an intellectual but his personal writings prove the epithet to be Mere flattery. Like most press agents Goeb Bels believed implicitly in his own words. However by 1943 even his Faith became shaken. Goebbels at that time saw the end in sight and flew to Hitler. Hoping to persuade him to surrender. The problem begins to present itself Asto which Side we ought to turn to first the muscovite or the Anglo american sooner or later we shall have to face the question of inclining toward one enemy Side or the other. Germany has never yet had Luck with a two front War j it won t be Able to stand this one Long either Goebbels wrote. Through out his writing Goebbels shows an astir tenets a political shrewdness but therein Little  mistaking this for intellectual achievement. He regarded Stalin As More approachable than Churchill saying of the former that he was a More practical  Churchill he considered to be a roman tic adventurer with whom one can t talk  on april 9, 1943, Goebbels recorded the following in his diary a report  of american prisoners is really gruesome. These american boys Are human material that can in no Way stand comparison with our people. One has the impression of dealing with a Herd of Savages " the americans Are coming to Europe with a spiritual emptiness that really makes you shake your head. They Are uneducated and Don t know  in terms of military Force Goebbels was Worth several armies to the nazi program. In spite of his own knowledge of inevitable defeat v. His was the task of preventing the realization of such catastrophe from falling on the germans. He developed the Abil Ity to inspire mass hysteria and mass Contentment. Goebbels technique was not far different from the one used to Day by the practical politician in the cold War. The right hand of Hitler As Goebbels eventually became used  common denominator in dealing. But Bis goods. He talked in the simple language of the people when speaking to them Arad appealed in Plain terms tothe baser emotions hatred and envy.? yet whereas Stretcher s method was pornographic Goebbels was scientific the diary i since such writings inevitably turn inward discloses a , Bare picture of one of the biggest scoundrels of our times even though the author did specialize in prose for propaganda. Parris Mitchell of Kings Row. A by Henry and Katherine Bella Mann. 333 up. Simon & schuster new York. $3. The Story of the corruption which Maylie hidden behind the facade of straight laced social life in a Small own  tip where it left off in the Best Selling Kings Row by mrs. Bella Mann. Originally Parris Mitchell of Kings Row was to Nave appeared in 1945 As the second of a trilogy on Small " town life. The illness and death of Henry Bella Mann however put a temporary end to plans for the Book and it is Only now with the Aid of notes " and remembered conversations with he husband that mrs. Bella Mann has been Able to Complete it Parris Mitchell afe those who read the first Book will re member was a sensitive orphan boy who was being brought up by  Cious French grandmother. Her insistence on Good manners Courtesy and scholar ship in the arts was bound to make Parris stand out As different ? among. His rougher schoolmates especially when added up with his ability to speak perfect French and German but less perfect English. Later As Parris grew into an attractive eligible manhood with a Job at the local Asylum As psychiatrist the taint of his strange Ness persisted and he became the Center. Of various town feuds. In thin new volume less is Britten about skin grow and More about Wafaa to happened. To Parris Mitchell in the ensuing years than might be expected. But it is Well done and Rich i characterization and action. Noted in passing with much love. By Anne Green.276 up. Harper new York 3. ,. The author of this Hook was one of seven children who lived in the Lively shadows of their adoring  with memories of this child Hood of merry Days miss Green has written a charming Book which shares her remembered happiness with the readers by introducing them to her family. It was a vivid kaleidoscopic group presided Over by Mary and Edward Green a couple whose chief topic of conversation around the fireside was the tale of their mad courtship. The couple migrated from America with four children to Settle in be Havre France. But life for. The greens became Only More delightfully Gay when three new French offspring appeared who never really Learned to speak much English and added that much More to the confusion. The Edge of the night. By. Joh Prebble. 325 up William Sloane new York. $3.50. " the real the deep rooted effects of War upon human beings incalculable and incomprehensible Are the theme of this Book. The author an English Man starts with the end of the War and continues through with the troop sin the British occupation army an Ger Many. Or. Prebble is grim in his out look and he asks Many questions through his characters who seem unable to comprehend even their own actions like the private who. Sets fire tothe last House in a German Village and is unaffected As he sees the Mother an children watching it Burn to the ground. What happens to persons subjected Towar what Are the Long term effects of such fighting and destruction and whereas the world heading or. Prebble does t pretend to know All the answers but he presents his queries Point Blank. Free admission. By. Aka chase.319 up. Doubleday new Yolk. $3. The Gay miss Chase who whirled her readers so energetically through past imperfect six years ago has written fitting sequel to her adventures in this new Book. Bright but not so Brittle As she has been at times the lady author actress and socialite scampers from. Society pillar to Post against a War background which lends a note of though to fullness to her pen now arid then. She introduces her readers to her Glam Orous famous friends and. All in All provides Reading that is shrewd witty and  murder May Sec. No pockets in shrouds. By . -187 up. Macmillan Newyork. $2. When a spinster decides she does not like the detective who is investigating a murder around her part of town she has. The alternatives of keeping out of his Way or .getting., in his Way. Mes Julia Tyler belonging to the energetic Breed of elderly ladies decides to solve the " Case herself1 and does. Not worry  she cramps the Law s efforts at the same time. Z to the finishing touch. By Anne Hocking 192 up. Crime club new to Rittz a. A British army colonel formerly a Scotland Yard detective drifts from England to South Africa and Cyprus in search of the. Murderer of Anthon Medway. Medway was a brutal father. And husband and the Reader is Confron Ted with at least three suspects who might have been glad to eliminate him. In is  
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