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Though she is 41, the Hungarian soprano's voice showed no signs of wear. Conductor Otto Klemperer recognized what a voice she had when he heard her at the Cologne Opera. In 1927 he took her to the newly founded Berlin Kroll Opera, starred her in nearly every premiere. Later she went to the Paris Opera and the Budapest Op era. Now Rosa Pauly sings most often in Vienna. Strauss picked her to sing his Elektra at the Coronation Operas in Lon don this spring...
...Reichstag. Each is paid $240 monthly; in the last two years the Reichstag has been in session a total of four days, its "work" consisting of passing unanimous votes of Nazi approval, cheering Nazi bigwigs to the echo, singing Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel Lied in the Kroll Opera House, where it has met since the Reichstag Building was burned (TIME, March...
...hundred ninety-six paintings and statues by such famed artists as Gifford Beal. James Chapin, Guy Pene du Bois, William J. Glackens, Eugene Higgins, Leon Kroll, Jonas Lie, Eugene Speicher, John Sloan were on view when the great Chicago Art Institute opened its 47th annual show last week. Many of the artists were there in person as were most of Chicago's socialites and connoisseurs, of whom the most important by far was a dumpy, indomitable lady swathed in pearls, orchids and caracul coat. Wife of the unassuming Honorary President of the Institute, Mrs. Frank G. Logan puts...
...Artist Kroll's U. S. competition might have been keener were it not for the current squabble over whether or not museums and art galleries should pay rental for exhibitors' pictures. Because the Carnegie International declines to pay rental fees, dozens of crack U. S. artists refused to send pictures, showed last week instead at Pittsburgh's Gillespie Galleries...
...Early photographs of the incomplete Kroll mural created a mild buzz in Washington when it was discovered that the black-gowned jurist lending a helping hand to oppressed workmen was an obvious portrait of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime Republican Attorney General, good friend of Leon Kroll and one of the Court's steady liberals...