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Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
...Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none...
...Johann Fischart," Professor Howard, Sever...
...program will be as follows: Overture to "Oberon" Weber Symphony in D Major No. 104 (London) Haydn Adagio-allegro Andante Menuetto Allegro spiritoso Interval ;Petite Suite Debussy En Bateau Cortege Menuet Ballet Andante eantabile from the Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" waltzes Johann Strauss "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda" Ponchielli
Thereafter The Mummy is a thoroughly unreasonable hocus-pocus in which it develops that the reanimated mummy is enamored of the archeologist's fiancee (Zita Johann) who, in a previous incarnation, was an Egyptian priestess. To consummate his romance, the mummy tries to kill the archeologist's fiancee, but goes about it too deliberately to be successful. Typical shot: Karloff and Johann seated beside a tubful of hot water in the steam of which they discern scenes from their life...