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...Sixty-five hr.. 31 min.; by Johann Risticz & Wilheim Zimmerman, Germans, 1928. The Question Mark, in one sense, could not break this record. The Germans never re-fuelled...
...flowered parlor, smiled, shook his hand, offered felicitations. The old white-haired man nodded pleasantly, murmured thanks. Cataracts, he explained, were impairing the vision of both his eyes and demanded the attention of Viennese specialists, otherwise he would surely be at home with his "household."' By "household" Prince Johann Maria Franz Placide, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Tropau and of Jägerndorf meant the 11,500 inhabitants of his tiny (65 sq. mi.) independent principality, smallest in population in Europe. These inhabitants, the Prince well knew, were celebrating the completion of the seventieth year of his reign...
MACHINAL-Zita Johann making herself famous in a sombre survey of justifiable homicide (TIME, Sept...
...Volksoper Jeritza had her most rigorous training, learned stage technique and many rôles. While there she took a holiday at Ischl where the Imperial family spent its summers. The Emperor Franz Josef liked the opera, liked especially Die Fledermaus of Johann Strauss. He went one night when Jeritza was Rosalinda, sat attentive in his box, tapped his foot to the music, clapped loudly when she sang the Czardas. Three times Jeritza curtsied deep and began again. . . . The performance went on. ... Right triumphed over wrong. . . . The old Emperor beckoned an attendant: "Why have they always old, fat singers...
...program will include Russian folksongs, works by Tachaikovsk, Schubert, Mozart, and Johann Strauss. The Concert will be free and open to the public...