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...Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...
...annual Pension Fund Concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is to be presented on Sunday afternoon, March 17, at Symphony Hall. The program contains familiar Wagnerian excerpts including the overture to the opera "Tannhauser." In addition, Feodor Chaliapin, noted Russian basso, is to be heard with the orchestra in selections from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov" and from the opera "Prince Igor...
...well, too, for the true Don Quixote actually lives in the tall, spare-frame of Feodor Chaliapin. Singing little, but acting much, he has recreated the lovable old idiot. Nothing could be more purposefully ridiculous than the skeleton-like Chaliapin, with his wild hair and corkscrew beard, crawling out of an attic window buttocks up to find himself facing his pursuers--in his nightshirt. Nor could anything be more pathetically humorous than the armor-clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene...
...before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were arraigned eleven other high Gay-pay-oo chiefs. In Russia today the accused always confess when their case is of importance to the State. Last week's trial was no exception. According to the State's press handout, the Gay-pay-oo chiefs confessed that the Gay-pay-oo knew Stalin's friend Kirov was threatened with assassination, did nothing to prevent...
...Giannini, whose teacher was the late Marcella Sembrich (see below), went sadly to Detroit last week. The increasingly popular Lotte Lehmann sang at the Metropolitan, then in Washington and Princeton. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan before her last Debussy recital. After a two years' absence big Basso Feodor Chaliapin will come zooming back to the U. S. this week, sing first in Kansas City...