Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 to care for 7,000,000 needy, regardless of race, throughout Europe and Russia. During the Socialist uprising in Austria in 1934, the Committee was designated the official relief agency by consent of both the Socialist party and the Austrian Government. In the U. S., working among West Virginia coal miners, the Committee is Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity, to which she gave the $100,000 she made from three years' speaking on the radio...
Twenty years ago a patch-mustached Austrian nobleman, Captain Georg von Trapp, commander of an Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious business of raising their family. The family flourished. By 1921 it included seven small von Trapps; and there were more to come...
...musical von Trapps always sang and played just for the fun of it, never thought of turning professional. When Soprano Lotte Lehmann heard them, she suggested concerts. When Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them over the radio, he invited them to sing in Vienna. Soon the von Trapps were touring the whole map of Europe...
...specially chartered bus, Papa von Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...
...Preludes A is venue de Noel Balbastre Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Carols Deck the Hall Welsh Carol Wassail Song English Carol, arranged by Vanghan Williams Touro-Louro-louro Provencal Carol by Nicholas Saboly Scripture Reading, Luke 2, 1-19 Carols Listen Lordlings Osgood Cancion de Navidad (Radcliffe only) Austrian Carol God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen English Carol A spetless Rose Howells Congregational Hymn "Adeste Fiedlis" Masters in this Hall French Carol arranged by Gustav Holst Carol of the Tapping Shoe (Har. only) Czech Carol To God on High Decius Benediction Organ Postlude Hallelujah Chorus Handol