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Whatever its merit, the German Lindbergh saga is more pretentious, more quaintly imaginative than anything done on the same subject in the U. S. It is the collaboration of two young moderns -Librettist Bert Brecht, called "The German Kipling" because his verse is of the vigorous, ballad type, and Composer Kurt Weill. Composer Weill won notoriety if faint praise last year for his opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a gruesome piece set in an imaginary U. S. Sodom where money is the gluttonish god. Lindbergh's Flight makes the same attempt at realism...
Berlin first-nighters gathered last week in the Theater am Schiflbauerdarnm for an opening of note. Flimsy programs purchased from elderly ushers announced that they were to witness Happy End, a Comedy of Gang Life in Chicago by Elizabeth Hauptmann with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bert Brecht, German translator of John Gay's immortal Beggars' Opera. An italicized footnote explained: "the comedy is based on a story by Dorothy Lane which appeared in The J. L. S. Weekly, published at St. Louis...
Reporters rushed to see Bert Brecht, lyricist of Happy End, found him complacently reading a pile of press notices. Said...
Composer Weill and Librettist Bertolt Brecht are both 30-three years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly...
Sophomores Stratton, Markella, s.s.; Allen, c.f.; Warren, 3b.; Eisemann, c.; Chung, 2b.; Von Brecht, l.f.; Carroll, 1b.; Reinhart, r.f.; Donehue...