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...finally persuaded him to abandon. Jews rejoiced, but not for long. Came a blast from Wodenist Ludendorff. He was not suing for divorce, he still loved his wife, still hated the Jews. What he had done was file a petition for dissolution of their financial partnership so that Frau von Ludendorff might be protected from the mounting pile of libel and damage suits registered against Volkswarte...
...pointing, jeering crowds in the streets of La Paz. Leaving behind them the General, with cries for his head still ringing in their ears, they fled by motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Fraülein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible place. One day it is 'Viva General Kundt.' The next day it is 'Abatto! Abatto!'* ... A man gets tired of war sometimes...
...worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn in stiff bowler hats the two von Hindenburgs gazed on a wife's, on a mother's Wartime home...
...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...
...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...