Word: ause
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Manhattan's little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...
Chronically poverty-stricken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wanted to be married, decided to compose a light little Singspiel to pay the bills, titled it Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entf...
...Middle-Western farm or small-town product, and that's what Robert Walker, who has become a very mature actor, is in "The Clock." And following further the dictates of the popular imagination, though here it is nor erroneous, MGM has put him in a uniform--Corporal, AUS...
...reminded," said a radio commentator in Russian-controlled Berlin "of the lines of the famous poem Die Glocke by Schiller: "Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen" ("And from the ruins new life blossoms...
Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Bowie, AUS, former Assistant Attorney General of Maryland and currently in Europe with the American Group of Allied Control Council, will take up duties as professor of Law here effective July 1, Dean James M. Landis revealed Sunday. Bowie graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1934 and subsequently entered the service of the War Department with civilian status as legal assistant to the Headquarters Army Service Force...