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...last time Tito saw Paris was as an undercover Communist agent during the Spanish civil war. Traveling on forged papers as a Czech named Jaromir Havlicek, he set up headquarters in a Left Bank fleabag to arrange the dispatch of 1,500 Yugoslav volunteers to fight for Loyalist Spain. The police kept...
...children and go "as an act of grace." Last week, accompanied by the three little Sisperas, Phyllis, looking plump and happy, arrived at the Amsterdam airport, a free woman. Readers of the Daily Express had not been prepared for what happened next. She flew straight into the arms of Jaromir Chudy, the refugee who had got the Express interested in her story. Announced Jaromir calmly: "I am going to marry...
...Other such unusual compositions: Vaughan Williams' own Romance jor Harmonica and Orchestra, Serse Koussevitzky's Concerto for Double Bass, Jaromir Weinberger's Concerto for timpani, with four trumpets and four trombones, Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello...
...unknown little man who actually wrote Polka turned up in the news last week. He is a village orchestra leader named Jaromir Vejvoda, from the tiny Prague suburb of Vrane. In 1930, when he was 28, Vejvoda scribbled down Modran-ska Polka (his first composition) for his small stringed orchestra which played in the village park. Only in 1934 did he let it be published and words set to it. One Vasek Zeman retitled it Skoda Lasky (Jilted Love) and wrote these sob-saccharine lyrics in Czech...
Among the world's leading composers who have fled to the U.S., one at least, Jaromir Weinberger, bouncing little Czech, has gone wholeheartedly native. A great one for polkas and fugues, Weinberger's works since coming to the U.S. include The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Prelude and Fugue on Dixie. Last week his two newest were performed: The Lincoln Symphony and the score for a ballet, Saratoga...