Word: fridolin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening's second ballet was supposed to exhibit the Schoop comedy at its best. An innocent youth, Fridolin, reluctantly leaves his mother, ventures out into the world where his trials are many. He encounters seductive women, blustering athletes, religious fanatics, gets involved in a marriage and a host of bothersome in-laws, deserts them all with a shrug to find some other life. Throughout the many scenes Trudi Schoop was the picture of bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just...
Died. General William Verbeck, 69, head of Manlius Military School in Manlius, N. Y., onetime (1910-11) national commander of the Boy Scouts of America, onetime Adjutant-General of New York, son of the late Dr. Guido Fridolin Verbeck who founded the Kyushu Imperial University at Fukuoka, Japan; suddenly, at his home in Manlius...