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...telegram which the people of Bayreuth have feared all spring arrived there last week. The Bavarian telegrapher's face was solemnly long as he received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival...
...mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will be found." Frau Wagner hastily announced that Composer Richard Strauss will conduct the opening Parsifal. Who else will be found is hard to guess...
Aged Karl Muck is too frail now to conduct. Wilhelm Furtwangler is in high favor with Hitler but at odds with Frau Wagner because he felt she favored Toscanini. Fritz Busch is no Jew but the Nazis took his Dresden job away from him because they felt he had Red sympathies. Leo Blech who is a Jew has been permitted to keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would...
...story, as everyone knows, tells what happens when a Habsburg archduke turned taxi-driver meets his former mistress at a party given for the fallen nobility in Frau Lucher's Viennese hotel. It takes one night and several bottles of brandy to make the archduke suspect that perhaps changing circumstance has made him less a Habsburg than a cabby in fancy dress; and to convince the mistress that her psychiatrist husband may not be taking his patients' fees under false pretences. As in many good comedies, it is the attenuated tragedy under the surface of Reunion in Vienna...
...rose, the greatest brewery in America. Ehret was very scientific. His Franziskaner was famous. In 1912 he was offered $40,000,000 for his business, but he could not see bottled beer-would not produce it-and he fell behind Busch. Then came the war which caught him (like Frau Lily ) in Germany. He did not get back until 1918 and although a U. S. citizen had to fight to get his brewery back from the U. S. Government which had seized it. A fine, mustachioed, barrel-chested brewer of the old school, although he had three sons, he kept...