The Archive · 1938

German Matrimonial

Schools One sees that schools for the instruction of girls in the business of married life, are to be started all over Germany under e special prompting of Herr Hitler who, being bachelor, is naturally able to lay down rules for married hap pine: with full understanding and detachment. Of course it is understood that the instruction must be fully Aryan Peeresses and peasants will] sit side by side and undergo examin: tions in the principles of marital officio every year. I wonder whether the Germans realize that all this kes English people as intensely funny. They do, of course. and of the two countries Musical inf ligies are a commonplace. Mozart was one. so was Haydn. Paderewski 1 think gave his first public concert at th age of 15, Josef Hoffmann, who recently played at his jubilee concert in London, was touring England at 12. But painting prodigies are much r though every year at the Guildhall. exhibition of school-children's drawings—half-a-dozen geniuses are hailed by the press, of whom-nothing more is ever heard So there is a good deal of interest in an exhibition of drawings and paintings at the New Burlington Galleries, done between the ages of ud 17 by a girl named Roswitha Bitterlich. born by Lake Constance in 1920 but living since she was two at Innsbruck. AN an inspiring art background, of course, though many artists of real note it produced I am not expert to say There seems no doubt that Miss Bitterlich has a good deal of the

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