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Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall a concert of piano music by Josef Hofmann, flawless technician and thorough artist. He will play a Beethoven Sonata (Opus 111) and selections from Schumann and Chopin...
Character. Fritz Wittels, a student of Freud, writes :* "For a long time the Freuds lived in Kaiser Josef Strasse. . . . Since 1848, Joseph II has been regarded by the liberal bourgeoisie as the finest flower of the Hapsburg dynasty; as an exemplar of wisdom, benevolence, progress, and devotion to duty...
Died. Archduchess Marie Valerie, 56, in Castle Wallsee, Austria. She, the favorite daughter of the late Emperor Franz Josef, was the only poetess of the Habsburg family. To the tree-trunks in his park and woods the Emperor had her verses affixed so that he could see them when he walked abroad...
...Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine, the son of Polish parents. In his boyhood, he pointed out the Congo on the map and decided that it was the place he wanted to visit...
...myself!' " Elsewhere there is this wise remark, "You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will en-'danger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before the Emperor, in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. "How he applauded! In the second act I sang the very brilliant Czardas, with its fiery, passionate frischka dance close...