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Died. Henry W. Antheil Jr., 27, attaché of the U. S. Legation at Helsinki, younger brother of noted Composer George Antheil; when the Finnish airliner in which he was flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki mysteriously exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Gulf of Finland...
...Salzburg he overtook and engaged the man responsible for both: young, sleek-haired Dr. Herbert Graf who was working with Toscanini. In his 33 years Graf has won a doctorate from Vienna University for his thesis Richard Wagner as Stage Director, staged more than 50 operas including Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which he learned from the cinema and the Russians Stanislavsky, Tairoff and Meyerhold, he won fame by staging the most energetic Falstaff Philadelphia ever saw, increased his reputation when he mounted Mozart's Escape from the Seraglio and Gluck...
...shocked Hanover by revealing his experience as butler in the home of a respected faculty member (The Professor's Wife), turns to reminiscence of his long residence in Paris. Still an irrepressible extrovert, Author Imbs devotes most of his current opus to little anecdotes about Gertrude Stein. George Antheil and their respective circles...
...March 13, 1933). President Erskine had taken to writing opera librettos but the Metropolitan had already scheduled the Hanson-Stokes Merry Mount for its single native venture this season. It fell to the Juilliard School last week to present Helen Retires, on which Mr. Erskine collaborated with Composer George Antheil...
...George Antheil branded himself seven years ago as the most freakish of U. S. composers. He grew up in Trenton, N. J., went to Paris to live when he was 20. After six years he celebrated his homecoming by putting on in Manhattan his Ballet Mecanique with ten pianos, wind machines, an airplane propeller, assorted horns, whistles and bells. The critics' jeers drove him back to Paris. Lately he claimed that he had reformed. Helen Retires was to illustrate his conversion to melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student...