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From Glyndebourne, too, came the New Opera's conductor of last week-hulking, moon-faced German Fritz Busch. This week the New Opera revives Verdi's Macbeth, seldom heard in the U.S. since 1850. Other revivals: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, whose lush melodies and story of a gambler's fate have pleased European but not U.S. audiences, and La Vie Parisienne -Offenbach's satire on the gaslit vulgarities of France's Second Empire...
...guests: Stokowski, Bruno Walter, Artur Rodzinski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sergei Koussevitzky, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Busch, Eugene Goossens...
...Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week...
...foreword to this book, says Fritz Thyssen, onetime rich and powerful head of the German steel trust, onetime National Socialist party member, onetime financial backer of Adolf Hitler, now probably a corpse or a haggard prisoner of the Gestapo. I Paid Hitler reveals Thyssen as one of history's rankest examples of The Man Who Was Wrong...
...Victim of Sharpers." Fritz Thyssen calls himself "a man of good will." Looking back, he decided that in 1930 he had really been a liberal-and adds naively, "I should have been astonished if anyone had called me a liberal." He claims that all his troubles and all the damage he did to the world grew out of his endless capacity for being fooled by political sharpers. History's verdict is likely to be harsher...