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Because a singer heard her and liked her playing, Marcelline Kochanska was admitted to the Lemberg Conservatory where her teacher was a Wilhelm Stengel whom she married in 1877. When she was in her teens Stengel took her to see Franz Liszt who said: "Kleine, you have three pairs of wings on which to fly to fame. You can become a great pianist, a great violinist or a great singer." Sembrich chose to sing and took her mother's maiden name. Her début was in Athens...
...lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech of a Jewish rabbi to his congregation, crediting the story to an "eminent Englishman, Sir John Retcliffe." By 1912 the story became the "stenographic report" of a speech at a Jewish congress in Lemberg...
Through the squalid streets of Zlatshev, a small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed...
...Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented disorder. Rioting broke out also in Breslau, Cracow, Posen, Lemberg...
Marching By musically relates how first the Austrians and then the Russians took and retook Lemberg in the stirring days of 1915. During one of these swaps a handsome young Austrian (Guy Robertson) is wounded and left behind. Iron enters poor disabled Mr. Robertson's soul when he notices the lecherous glances with which the base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe...