Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More startling to most delegates was a revelation by General Secretary Walter Citrine of the T. U. C. that the organization has been actively spending its funds to combat Fascism, chiefly in Germany and Austria. Mr. Citrine refused to say how much the T. U. C. has spent in Germany. In Austria, he declared. ?44,000 ($220,000) has been spent for "relief" and ?46.000 in fighting the Austrian Nazis...
...Austria last week the Schuschnigg Government blandly asked the Austro- American Magnesite Corp. for a "voluntary gift" of 200,000 schillings...
...reason that many people went to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria this year was to watch the excitement that would occur if the Festival had to be called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth Festival was no great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last...
...prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman, a U. S. tenor under contract to the Berlin Staatsoper, to decline his invitation to Salzburg, he angrily pointed to his U. S. citizenship, entrained for Austria anyhow...
Full houses are nothing new to Toscanini. Last year in Manhattan he had them for every Philharmonic concert. Bruno Walter and Hans Lange, the other two Philharmonic conductors, could never quite fill Carnegie Hall last season. Since Herr Walter has been in Austria, however, he has developed the trick of jam-packing concert halls like the Maestro himself. His performances of Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Don Giovanni left few doubts that he had run off with the opera honors, might well be considered the Festival's Hero...