Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the opera Schwanda der Dudelsackpjeijer (Bagpipe-player) made a Metropolitan Opera audience forget last week how bored it had become with the idea of new operas, few of which survive more than one or two seasons. Not even a middle-aged Wagnerian (Baritone Friedrich Schorr), who endeavored to impersonate swaggering Schwanda by oc- casionally skipping across the stage, seemed to dim the happy effect that Czech Composer Jaromir Weinberger got with his sophisticated scoring of a theme song on life and barnyard noises, a rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera...
Professor Andre Morize, of the French Department, and Professor Friedrich von der Leyen, of the University of Cologne, visiting Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and literature, will speak at the annual dinner of the Boston Authors Club this evening in the Twentieth Century Club Hall...
...first of a series of nine lectures, Professor Friedrich von der Leyon of the University of Cologne will speak in the Germanic Museum today at 4 o'clock on "Prehistoric Germany." In the following lectures, which will be given in German, von der Leyen will trace the development of German literature from the earliest times to the present day. The history of painting, sculpture, and the arts, as well as the drama and stage settings, will also be treated in the light of their connection with German culture...
...French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen Laval, Brüning, Briand and Curtius formally organized their "Franco-German Economic Committee" (TIME, Sept. 28), a bit of window-dressing ostensibly...
Nine will have the title of lecturer and three appointments carry the title of professor Pierre Martino, professor of French Languages and Literature at the University of Algiers, is to be Exchange Professor from France for the second semester. Friedrich von der Leyen, from the University of Cologne, is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard for one year from September 1, 1931. Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, has come for the academic year as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry...