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...Schells are like the Barrymores were in the U.S." Born in Vienna in 1930, Max is the third of four children of Swiss Poet-Playwright Hermann Schell. His mother was an actress. His brother Karl has established a sound acting reputation on the Continent. His younger sister, now called Editha Nordberg. is developing as a European film star. And his older sister, Maria, of course, is the most celebrated Germanic actress since Marlene Dietrich...
BEETHOVEN AND HIS NEPHEW, by Editha Sferba and Richard Sferba (351 pp.; Pantheon; $5). The authors are concerned with the vulnerable man, not the venerable musician, and apparently are out to demonstrate, largely using Beethoven's own words against him. that the great composer was insufferable. He was slovenly, sadistic, puritanical, suspicious, demanding, uncontrolled, domineering, violent. After he became guardian of his nephew Karl (the boy's father had died), Beethoven tried to own his life com pletely, eventually drove him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Freudians Richard and Editha Sterba charge Beethoven with an "unconscious homosexual" relationship...
...line-up of singers is, on the whole, proud. Among the sopranos there are such experienced performers as Elisabeth Rethberg, Gertrude Kappel, Florence Easton, Lily Pons, Queena Mario, Edith Mason, Editha Fleischer, Rosa Ponselle, who will sing her first Carmen, and Lotte Lehmann who was to open the Philadelphia season in Tosca...
...affair has normally enjoyed during its 72 years. One episode might have been anticipated, for when the name of Percy Aldridge ("Country Gardens") Grainger appears on a program it is more than likely to forecast a performance out of the commonplace. The second episode concerned German Soprano Editha Fleischer, especially imported to be leading soloist in the Festival's lastnight program...
...merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic, legendary dimensions suggested by the role. Soprano Editha Fleischer sang sensuously. Conductor Tullio Serafin drew out of his orchestra all the scintillating tonality which the composer could have desired of the score...