Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beatify indomitable Zita's husband. Kaiser Karl was a devout Catholic, led a respectable life, was conscientious as an army officer. His fault was that, flaccid and morally spineless to a degree, he was trusted from one moment to the next by no one, from his great- uncle Franz Josef I to his royal "cousin" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The two years (1916-18) in which he wore the slightly age-battered crown of St. Stephen were a succession of backings and fillings and unfulfilled political pledges...
...Siegfried Wagner, 60, collapsed, developed pneumonia, after weeks of hard work preparing for this summer's festival at Bayreuth of his late, great father's operas. The festival this year is also in honor of Siegfried Wagner's mother, the late Frau Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt (TIME, April...
...Revolution intervened. Young Sascha journeyed to the U. S., joined the class of Franz Kneisel* under whom he developed slowly, unspectacularly, with no show of temperament. In 1915, he made his debut, was acclaimed...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...
...these last talismanic words the great, rusty doors of the crypt groaned open to receive a Royal corpse for the first time since they closed in 1916 on the body of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, King of Hungary, In the presence of a brilliant assemblage, including the Ministers of Spain and France, former Austrian Prime Minister Ignaz Seipel and a host of demoted nobility, the coffin entered the crypt. It was draped with the colors of Imperial Austria. On a yellow field the black, two-headed eagle of the Habsburgs screamed again...