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When U. S. citizens last focused their attention on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...
...confused with Johann Strauss (1825-99) famed composer of Viennese waltzes, including The Beautiful Blue Danube...
...recital this afternoon, Professor Davison will play a program of compositions for the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach...
...before the houseparty guests, thus makes the naughty prima donna partner to a virtuous rehearsal in her chamber the night before. It was rather difficult to find some-thing " 'soft, round, velvety,'-and respectable." But Playwright Molnar is nothing if not ingenious. He has even given Johann Dwornits-chek, footman, a personality. Ralph Nairn plays the part. The entire cast, headed by Holbrook Blinn, ably supports the playwright in offering a rare, charming, skilful entertainment, one that wise play-goers will not overlook...
There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting here and there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance...