Word: direktor
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...Ship. Catholic passengers on North German Lloyd vessels last week prayed, with content and quietude unusual aboard ship, before altars permanently built in. They knew too that Herr Direktor Adolf Stadtlander of the line had told His Holiness of this convenience for voyaging Catholic immigrants and church missions, had indicated that his was the only line so permanently equipped, had received the Apostolic blessing for the ventures of the North German Lloyd...
From this lapse he has just recently recovered gloriously. Paris had two Mozart festivals, both in the beautiful Theâtre des Champs-Elysées. The first of these was the venture of the Vienna Opera, complete with orchestra, singers, scenery and Herr Direktor Franz Schalk. It was part of an "official tour." Six operas were presented. There was no "modernizing," but the strictest possible adherence, to the purest Mozart traditions. Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle. Restraint and sobriety...