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...Died. Frau Jacob Amalia Nathanson Freud, 95, mother of famed Neurologist Sigmund Freud; of old age, at Vienna. Frau Freud had 45 other descendants...
When Siegfried Wagner last month followed his mother Frau Cosima (TIME, April 14) to a lingering death (TIME, Aug. 11) opera lovers all over the world wondered anxiously on whose shoulders would fall direction of Bayreuth's Wagner festivals. To his widow Siegfried willed complete musical, artistic, and financial charge. But Widow Wagner has a young family to rear. A strong man was needed, a genius to bring back the glory to Bayreuth...
...Frau Cosima's declining years when she directed the festivals from her sick bed at Villa Wahnfried, the operas were poorly cast, scenery was incongruous, costumes ridiculous. Most unpardonable, the music was mechanically, often indifferently rendered. German critics stayed away from Bayreuth, spoke slightingly of it, or worse, ignored it completely...
...which will enhance German prestige throughout the world." It was learned that von Gronau actually had cabled from Iceland for permission to fly on westward. This request was immediately followed by a message saying he had taken off. At the captain's home in Warnemunde, headquarters of the school, Frau von Gronau, unable to snatch a moment's rest, despairingly ordered the telephone disconnected...
Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, chief of the school for commercial pilots at Warne-munde on the Baltic, kissed his hausfrau last week, remarked casually, "It is time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane...