Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years old, weighing 230 Ih. according to his secretary's latest estimate, his first triumphs were the Khedive's Palace in Cairo; the Alexander Bridge over the Neva in Leningrad; the castle of Prince Esterhazy de Galantha in Hungary. In 1912 he brought a corps of Austrian scene painters to the U. S. to design scenery for the Boston Opera House. Its failure threw him on the mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third of the scenery for the Metropolitan Opera, all scenery for Ziegfeld. He gradually crept back into architecture. In recent...
...Nordicus" set out to give a complete analysis of Hitler's character and ambitions, his program, and the policies which might have a far-reaching influence should this "dapper Austrian" succeed in making himself dictator of the Reich. The anonymity of the writer testifies to the nature of this analysis. It goes behind the scene of German politics and paints a picture of which the truth can be disproved only by close contact with and observation of the men at the head of the movement...
...Washington the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
Died. Alfred S. Austrian, 61, Chicago lawyer; of a gastric ailment; in Chicago. Learned, eloquent, he had successfully represented Armour & Co. in defense of its acquisition of Morris & Co. which the U. S. Government contended was a violation of the Clayton Anti-trust Act. Among his other clients were Lumberman James Stanley Joyce (divorced by Peggy); the late William Wrigley Jr.'; Erlanger theatre interests; White Sox baseball club; the Chicago Tribune...
...Author, Born in Vienna in 1881, of rich Jewish parents, Stefan Zweig until the World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...