Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the ruling sovereigns of these two warring States, Herr Hitler and Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein, sat down at a Berlin parley. Their subject of discussion: colonies. Prince Franz Josef's colony is a private estate in the Sudetenland, an estate considerably larger than his 5x12 country. Surprisingly for an enemy ruler who wants a colony or two for himself, Herr Hitler made no immediate demands on the integrity of the Prince's colonial empire...
...fight on the side of the Austrians against the Russians. Idea of the Polish Legion was that the greatest part of Poland was held by Russia and therefore Russia was temporarily the greatest enemy. However, the Legion had so little interest in fighting for the glory of Emperor Franz Josef's reign that it was soon interned, to be released only with the War's conclusion...
...Adolf Hitler's favorite stage entertainments is Franz Lehar's light opera, The Merry Widow. Last week in Munich the Fuhrer decided that he would like The Merry Widow a little merrier. A telegram was sent to Cannes where lissome, long-limbed Marion Daniels was doing an acrobatic tap dance turn at the Casino. A special plane followed, rushed the blonde 19-year-old Californian to Munich's Gärtnerplatz Theatre where she gave a few new twists and taps to The Merry Widow's, Viennese waltzes...
...Sergei Koussevitzky's famed Boston Symphony had announced a "concert extraordinaire." Manhattan concertgoers could see that something was up when 18th-Century ushers led them to their seats. When Boston's stiff-necked orchestra appeared in silk stockings and periwigs with Conductor Koussevitzky himself got up as Franz Joseph ("Papa") Haydn, they began to catch on. Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left the stage...
...went into self-imposed exile, but he never got out from under the shadow. On his travels he made friends with Stefan Zweig, Alfred Neumann, Franz Werfel, and wrote two first-class novels, Child of Our Time and The Age of the Fish. Last week the latter was published in English...