Word: gessler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROAD MY BODY GOES-Clifford Gessler -Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.50). A tourist-free island of the South Seas described by a Honolulu newspaperman who spent a picturesque three months there, warns his readers away by saying the mosquitoes reek with elephantiasis germs...
...shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season...
...surprised as the mothers at this curious meeting were Herr Otto Karl Gessler, onetime (1920-28) German War Minister, and his staff of ten former German army officers, who had visited the U. S. cemetery that morning to get ideas for improving German cemeteries in the same district...