Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strauss wrote Octavian's part for a mezzo-soprano. Last week's impersonator was Eva Hadrabova, a rangy 27-year-old Czech whose figure is better than her voice. The Sophie was Elisabeth Schumann, longtime friend of Strauss, whose clear thread-like voice perfectly suited the demure fluttery young girl she was supposed to be. Basso Emanuel List made the Baron's comedy as broad as his beam, as obvious as the tuba which kept tabs...
...commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
When every Madrid newspaper of consequence denounced the Commission as an "affront to Spain," French Commissioner Bourthomieux discreetly took the first train for Paris. The Britons and the Czech stuck, to be jeered by hoodlums in the streets. Armed with a letter from Premier Lerroux, they sped to Asturias, the "Atrocities Province," presented their credentials at Oviedo to Major Doval, the Military Acting Governor. "Certainly, my Lord and Miss Wilkinson," beamed the Major, "it will be a pleasure...
Instead of an Italian melodrama crammed with deaths, the San Francisco opera opened with Smetana's folksy Bartered Bride. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang clearly and cavorted like any plump Czech peasant girl. In the pit was bald old Alfred Hertz who conducted The Bartered Bride at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House before he went West to take over the San Francisco Symphony...
...best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution. It had been everything that individual likes and dislikes...