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Once there was a riding school in Salzburg, Austria. Max Reinhardt, whose castle-Leopoldskron-overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw. They tore out the stalls, put in a pipe organ. A choir loft went where the bins had been; the walls, which still preserved the smell of saddle-soap, disinfectant and horse-manure, were transformed into cathedral columns; the tanbark became an amphitheatre for the quality. There, last week, gathered a number of deposed princes, English lords and their ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salzburg | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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