Word: bazar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again at the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. So were Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Actor Sacha Guitry. the Bishop of Winchester, Tenor Richard Tauber. rich Mrs. Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
...Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...
...This year Herr Hitler had even more cause to think bitterly of the town across the border. Salzburg hotels were full to overflowing, 10,000 foreign visitors having arrived as the music season got under way early in August. Day after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place de 1'Opéra in Paris. Packjammed night after night were performances of Reinhardt's Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final...