Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...
...perhaps Messrs. Woollcott and Williams too) seemed to indicate. It is the theme of The Fatal Curiosity, by George Lillo, first acted in London in 1736. The plot is the same as in the later versions. The son returns, meaning to surprise his parents; they murder him, discovering just too late who he is; the father kills his wife, then himself. The time of the play is in the reign of James I, and the plot has been traced to a pamphlet printed in 1618. The story may probably be much older. The original title under which the play...
...Fatal Curiosity, although not so popular as its predecessor, had a real influence on English drama. It was adapted by the German dramatist Werner . . . [which] led to a whole host of plays that became extremely popular in Germany during the 19th Century. They were known as Schicksal Dramen (fate plays). The fate plays came over to England in translation, were enthusiastically received and were in part the forerunners of the romantic melodrama, so characteristic of the last century both in England and in this country, and still in evidence today...
Elvert Carlstrom. a young Swede, appeared with a Hauptmann alibi for the fatal night of March 11, 1932. He said he had gone from Dunellen, N. J., where he was employed as a caretaker, to The Bronx to see a girl named "Esther." He went to Christian Fredericksen's bakery-restaurant, which he used to patronize when he lived nearby, with a man named "Larsen." In the restaurant, he distinctly remembered seeing Hauptmann sitting at a table. When the State began questioning him, Carlstrom could not recall "Esther's" last name or "Larsen's" first...
Mount Hermon. "Who killed Elliott Speer?" was just as baffling a question last week as it was on the evening when a fatal volley of buckshot spattered through the study window of the headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys (TIME, Sept. 24). Police of Northfield, Mass., had scoured every foot of the campus. A local judge had held a secret, ten-day inquest, examined 63 witnesses, only to report that young Headmaster Speer had died by the hand of "a person unknown." Last week Mount Hermon's trustees got down to the business of picking...