Word: dirndles
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Last autumn they decided to go to the U. S. Traveling all together in a specially chartered bus, Papa von Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...
Though he has as yet no Paris salon, Designer Rudolf Lanz of Salzburg has had such an important effect on the design of sports clothes that even the most important Paris houses are experimenting this spring with adaptations of the traditional Lanz Dirndl (tight-bodiced peasant dress) for street wear...
...gifted as Toscanini's Soprano Lotte Lehmann. In the much-rehearsed Meister singer, Lehmann was a vital Eva. In Fidelio she was a dramatic, moving Leonore, even in that opera's static, old-fashioned stretches. Salzburg autograph collectors agreed with critics, pursued Soprano Lehmann in her Dirndl in the streets as often as they did Conductors Walter and Toscanini...