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education for her child, Johann, who at an early age gives excellent promise of becoming as sure a musician as his worldly father. He has his triumph in 1844 when he succeeds in swaying Vienna more than had his father in his debut eighteen years before. Son is like father in many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both...
...inhabitants of the island will hear a varied program, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, consisting of Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" overture, "Tales from a Vienna Wood," by Johann Strauss, the "Dance Trepak" from Tschaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite, and the first movement of the Bach D Minor Concerto for two violins and string orchestra. The solo part for this last piece will be played by George K. Mateyo '34, and Austin Ivory...
Champagne, Sec (adapted from Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Alan Child; lyrics by Robert A. Simon; Dwight
Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes...
...thousands knows anything about the able Swedish Governor who established the first permanent seat of Government in Pennsylvania and did it before William Penn was born." Thus writes C. Hale Sipe, lawyer-historian-lecturer of Butler, Pa. The able Swede was an adipose lieutenant-colonel named Johann Printz who arrived in New Sweden in 1642, built a state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition in the schools C. Hale Sipe has crusaded. In his lectures and books (The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania...