Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the third of a series of seven Romains articles (The Mystery of Daladier, The Mystery of Gamelin, The Mystery of Leopold, etc.) appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, they began to realize that self-important little Jules Romains was also one of the most curious characters the period between the two world wars produced: that he was Europe's most indefatigable and unsuccessful peace-fixer, whose naivete was only equaled by his Tom Sawyerish delight in conspiracy...
...while Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler. A reversal...
Last July, before Maestro Leopold Stokowski took his All American Youth Orchestra on a good-will tour of South America, he let it sound off to hot-weather audiences in Baltimore, Atlantic City, Manhattan. The So-odd youngsters (with a backbone of 18 Philadelphia veterans) sounded good, but some critics reserved judgment. Last week, back from the tour, Dr. Stokowski with the Youth Orchestra put on a show in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall itself and put their reservations to rout. Concertgoers were somewhat startled to see the orchestra framed in a brash, blue acoustical shell, lit by brash, blue...
...many listeners in the two Americas, Leopold Stokowski and his youngsters had by last week proved that 20 years is not needed to make an orchestra; that, anyway, the conductor is the thing. That proved, Stokowski announced that the Youth Orchestra would, at least temporarily, disband. It may be reassembled for a movie...
...birth certificate in London, where he was born of an Irish mother and a Polish father, reads Leopold Antony Stokowski...