Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand the show was most effective in demonstrating how different designers handle the same play. There were settings for Hamlet by the Soviet Nicolai Akimoff, the Austrian Oscar Strnad; the Czechoslovakian Vlastislav Hofman; the German Hans Poelzig, Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager and Lee Simonson of the U. S. Emperor Jones was set by Cleon Throckmorton, Donald Oenslager of New York; Walter Rene Fuerst of Paris; Vlastislav Hofman of Prague. Other highlights among the exhibits...
...nation-wide outbreak of labor disputes in the closing months of the World War. To aid in the settlement of one of these disputes, the strike of the California lumberjacks, Wilson sent to the coast the chairman of his War Labor Policies Board, the thirty-six-year-old, Austrian-born Felix Frankfurter. Arriving in San Francisco before the strike leaders, Frankfurter accepted an invitation to dinner on his first evening in the city, returned to his hotel at eleven o'clock. In the lobby his associates met him to tell him that the lumberjacks had arrived and were waiting...
...first four decades of his life John Hertz never thought of retiring. Austrian-born Jew, he was brought to the U. S. as a child, ran away from home after a spanking. He became a copy-boy in a newspaper office (Chicago Daily News), learned to spell well enough to do police reporting and finally rose to be assistant sports editor. When his newspaper was merged, he started to sell automobiles. He sold them so fast that the trade-ins piled up into a nightmare. Then he hit on the idea of painting his used cars and sending them...
...Africaine. So did big Basso Emanuel List, an Austrian who twelve years ago was singing in Manhattan cinemansions. Basso List's deep, dark voice was admirably suited to the beards he wore as the Landgrave in Tannhaüser, as Hunding in Walküre. But big, forceful bassos are much more common than slender, graceful tenors...
...from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave him the D. S. 0. In 1918 he sat at the Admiralty desk of "Director of Operations." For that they made him a Companion of the Bath, an officer of the Legion of Honor, gave him the Rising Sun of Japan...