Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass into the hands of those who would devote it to cheap amusement." St. Louis. The "Muny Opera" of the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis opened its 13th season three weeks ago. Once devoted mainly to light opera- Gilbert & Sullivan, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar et al.-it has acquired a revolving stage, a number of onetime Shubert musical comedy singers, and last year a Shubert director, Milton I., nephew of Producers Lee & Jake (TIME, June 9. 1930). Its productions are now more in the Broadway manner than in that of the Savoy or the Strauss-Theater (see below...
...Arthur's dictum last week became Professor Franz Boas' rhetorical opportunity. Professor Boas is also a great anthropologist, and 1932 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The A. A. A. S. last week was at Pasadena, holding its first summer meeting. Ordinarily at the regular annual meetings (Christmas school holidays) the incoming president presides and the retiring president gives a learned address. As an innovation for the summer meeting President Thomas Hunt Morgan sat still while President-elect Boas talked...
...however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet shape, airplane motor and propeller drive is a so-called "rail Zeppelin" which made its maiden trip over a commercial route in Germany last week. With Inventor Franz Kruckenberg & Wife in the coach, the great aluminum-covered projectile shot along the rails from Hamburg to Berlin at an average speed of 106 in. p. h., better than the schedule of Luft Hansa planes. On part of the run it hit 143 m. p. h., a rail record...
...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...
...Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number of U. S. amateurs, notably Artist Rockwell Kent, are heading for convenient subArctic regions. For the effete, the Soviet Government has organized a tour this summer aboard the icebreaker Maligin from Archangel to Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. When the Maligin reaches its "top," above 83° N. Latitude, ambitious tourists may make a short airplane flight towards the North Pole. The minute last week that hatless Explorer Wilkins had finished his rapid queries concerning stores for his Arctic-going submarine and had strode...