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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, Carl Carlson, 56, Swedish-born, U. S.-naturalized valet to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, learned over the radio that he had won first prize ($150,000) in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Meanwhile, Mr. Davies was unexpectedly received by Joseph Stalin, whom he had never met in his year and a half in Moscow, and with whom he chatted for two hours...
...corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...
...Largest contingents were from England (13), Germany (12), Italy (12), France (n). Australia, China and Uruguay each sent one. The U. S. was meagrely represented by three pianists who happened to be in Europe. Only U. S. entry with any reputation in the U. S. was Ray Lev, Russian-born one-time student at Manhattan's Music School Settlement...
...Puccini, to date, is that of Austrian Critic Richard Specht, which appeared in an English translation five years ago (Alfred Knopf). To it was added last week a genial book of personal reminiscence by Vincent Seligman,t son of Puccini's close friend, Sybil Seligman, a British-born musical amateur. Without attempting to rival Biographer Specht's scholarship. Biographer Seligman gives a more intimate picture of a fastidious, cultured musician who was loved by a fearsomely jealous wife, who himself loved motorboats, feminine society, high-powered automobiles...
...Born. To Princess Sibylle and Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden; their third daughter, to the disappointment of the nation, which wanted a prince; in Stockholm...