Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Czech Government has been campaigning against both the Church and the German element in the country. Last week a commission from its Land Expropriation Bureau swept down without notice in Marienbad, seized the establishment, took over the management, appropriated all cash on hand, discharged all employes and replaced them by Czechs, declared that only Czech might be spoken...
...Kluge Fuchslein (The Sly Little Fox), an opera by Leos Janáĉek is, in technique, the exact opposite of Jenufa (TIME, Dec. 15), his first opera, written 25 years ago. Jenufa was realism-a Czech Wirklichkeit; this work is phantasy. It tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild...
...incidents in her past. Exasperated crowds lined the streets through which she drove. When she sang at the opera house, a police cordon was considered necessary to keep her from violence. She was Madame Maria Jeritza who, though born in Brünn, early showed that she had no Czech complex by wedding...
...Pilsen, which, since it became a Czecho-Slovakian city, spells its name Plzen. Certain German patriots urged a boycott of the famed Bohemian beer, pointing out that the breweries were forced to donate part of their profits to CzechoSlovakian schools in which German children are forced to learn Czech. They also reminded German "beer-swuzzlers" that there was plenty of good German beer with which to "swuzzle," and that Czechs never "swuzzled" with any but their own beer...
...then, futuristic string-quartet composers have used quarter-tones, and really achieved genuine new effects with them. Expert violinists can manage them, with a little practice (beginners without any practice at all). At last, however, a quarter-tone piano keyboard has been invented, by one Alois Haba, a young Czech pupil of the daring Franz Schreker. His instrument was the chief exhibit at the International Music Festival held in Prague last month...