Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight on skis was impractical. He started to ski in a crouch. In the next 30 years skiing in a crouch not only became the accepted way to ski but, by making skiing easier, made it popular all over the world. Hired as a ski teacher by St. Anton's Hotel Post when he was 17, Hannes Schneider taught the hotel guests to ski in a crouch. During his ample spare time, he gave free lessons in skiing and crouching to St. Anton villagers. During the War, he served with the Austrian Army, first in Russia, then...
HANNES SCHNEIDER'S school at St. Anton, Arlberg, is probably the most famous center for ski instruction in the world. To him have come King Albert of Belgium; Germany's finance minister, Dr. Schacht; Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator of Austria, and notables from every continent. One of his assistant instructors, Otto Lang, the author of "Downhill Skiing" will extend the Arlberg System to the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington this winter...
With his sound musical background and his ready Irish charm Herbert was bound to make himself known. Little time passed before Conductor Anton Seidl made him his assistant for the Brighton Beach concerts. For four years thereafter Herbert led the famed Pat Gilmore band, for six the Pittsburgh Symphony. On Broadway he became a legendary figure. His capacity for work was equaled by his Gargantuan appetite for food and drink...
...addition there was 430,000 schillings paid to buy houses for Jewish refugees from Germany, and a payment of 108,000 schillings to Anton Rintelen, now serving a life sentence for participation in the Nazi Putsch which led to the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss. Maintaining the goodwill of the Austrian Press cost Phönix-Wien 1,098,000 schillings...
...within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play in the double-bass section. Father Anton is an oldster in the Orchestra. His son Carl is there to follow in his footsteps. Trumpeter Saul Caston is conducting in Evansville, Phoenix and Holdrege, Neb. Caston conducted first at a Dell summer concert in 1931, when Albert Coates was suddenly taken ill. For a few hair-raising moments then...