Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franz Grillharger", Professor Burkhard...
...last week's Swift concert, given as usual at Orchestra Hall under Conductor David Alva Clippinger. The house, packed with Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...
...Count of Luxembourg is Franz Lehar's famed operetta about an impoverished resident of the Latin Quarter who gets paid to marry an unknown beauty and then, obviously, falls in love with her. Milton Aborn's revival company intones several splendid tunes you will recognize if you are old enough: "Love Breaks Every Bond," "Are You Going to Dance?" "I'm in Love...
...Academy at Leghorn before the War gathered many adolescent noblemen later killed on battlefields where a steel blade was not of much use. Nedo Nadi began to fence when he was 7. When he was 13 he won the fencing tournament held in Vienna as part of the Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee. When he was 17, he was unbeatable. He has won five Olympic championships. During the War he served as captain in the Italian cavalry. The king gave him the Blue Ribbon of the valor medal and made him a Knight. He was an amateur until...
Back from bank to bank the counterfeit trail was followed. It led last week to an order bidding German and Swiss police to arrest on sight one Franz Fischer, prominent a decade ago in the German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they...