Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served with Britain's Royal Flying Corps. The Polish unit with which they were merged was commanded by Germany's Wartime chief of air forces in Turkey, Col. Ludomil Rayski, now head of Poland's air force. The few Poles in the Squadron were former Austrian and Imperial Russian pilots...
...From Austrian Silesia, in 1754 and 1759, emigrated the Brothers Barnard and Michael Gratz. Their progeny reached eminence in various ways, but none more than Rebecca (1781-1869) daughter of Michael. In Philadelphia today survive charities founded by Rebecca Gratz. One of her good works was to nurse Matilda Hoffman, fiancee of Washington Irving, before Matilda died of tuberculosis at 17. Irving, grief-stricken, hurried off to Europe, where he met Sir Walter Scott and told him about Rebecca Gratz. In 1819, after Ivanhoe was published, Scott is supposed to have written: "How do you like your Rebecca? Does this...
...sinister grey shadows beneath the surface. The tuna are the composite hero throughout, the sharks the composite villain. The sharks "settle everything," tumble drowning fishermen, end love triangles, horrify audiences. Robinson writhes and mouths his lines in an effective, fat facsimile of Lionel Barrymore's acting. Zita Johann, beauteous Austrian-born importation from Manhattan, is a convincing emotionalist, serious and big-eyed...
...Theatre Guild are playing "Reunion in Vienna", a truly delightful piece. The play does not deal with a college reunion. There are no middle-aged babies congregating to let off animal spirits. This reunion, on the contrary, is a coming together of the fag ends of an exiled Austrian aristocracy who hope to spend their last pennies laughing and weeping in their beloved Vienna, before braving another decade of hardworking exile in a cruel post-war world. On the stage there is a reunion of some of the best dramatic talent, moving lightly about in a play written by Robert...
Died. Dr. Johann Schober, 57. twice Chancellor of Austria (1921-22, 1929-30); of heart disease; in Gutenbrunn, Austria. Beginning as a clerk in the police department Dr. Schober rose to the high office of head of the Austrian Federal police which position he retained until his death. For some years during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef he safe-guarded the security of visiting monarchs, met Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately...