Word: fidelio
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...grand old man of music, whose record has been rich, whose friends have been many, whose position in the limelight has never once dimmed since he slipped into his father's big boots a half century ago. For his jubilee performance he chose to conduct excerpts from Fidelio and from Die Meistersinger, for which he made his own English translation. On a different occasion critics would have commented lengthily on Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who was stalwartly enacting his first Hans Sachs. But the evening was Walter Damrosch's and the time one for testimonials. Applause reached its peak...
...German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...
...David McCloskey, will play the fol- lowing programme, to be broadcast Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF; Introduction to Solomon, by Handel; Evocation, by Loeffier; Prometheus, baritone solo, by Hugo Wolf; and Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic will play Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, all three of the Leonora overtures, and Brahms' First Symphony, on Sunday afternoon over WABC
...beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League's Francis Scott McBride: "The iron hand of the brewers is again in absolute control. . . ." ¶In Brooklyn the Kings County Retail Stationery & Newsdealers Association protested any state distributing plan which prohibited beer sales at stationery stores. ¶Manhattan's Fidelio Brewery placed a lithographing order for 80,000,000 beer bottle labels...
...York City Col. Jacob Ruppert, whose Third Avenue plant has been kept spic & span through twelve Dry years, was "ready to produce the real stuff on a moment's notice." Other metropolitan breweries?Doelger, Lion, Schaefer, Loewer, Trommer, Piel?began overhauling their plants. Fidelio Brewery advertised its stock for sale with the observation: "Modification of the Volstead Act now seems assured." Conservative Wall Street brokers warned customers that good brewery stock was closely held, that the new issues were highly speculative. At the U. S. Brewers' Academy 22 grown men were attending classes of a technical course which would qualify...