Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth regular pair of Symphony concerts at Symphony Hall will take place this week-end. Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde," composed in 1910, is to be performed with Paul Althouse and Maria Ranzow as soloists. The work consists of a cycle of six songs, symphonically treated, which are really Chinese lyrics from the eighth century translated into the German and freely adapted by the composer. Although uneven in its quality, "Das Lied von der Erde" is certainly at least near-great and is well worth hearing for it is infrequently given. Mozart's Symphony in E flat...
...rulers, Queen Maria Carolina and King Ferdinand, Lord Hamilton and his courtesan-wife, the hero Nelson, and the nefarious Acton, privy councillor, are skillfully contrasted with the populace of Naples, aristocrats, shopkeepers, servants, and the appalling "Iazzarone", who lived like beasts in filthy holes by the sea, coming out only at night or when there was looting to be done. Vincent Sheean's first novel is excellent. Never, as the jacket-blurb says, actually anti-historical, it is an impressive demonstration of the mingling in just proportion of literal fact and educated imagination...
...Chamber at Berlin what he called "War Literature Week" as the host of 60 German authors who have written pro-War books since 1918. Not one of the 60 has a name outside Germany. All world-famed German authors of the post-War generation have been men like Erich Maria Remarque whose All Quiet on the Western Front the Nazis think fit only for bonfires. Samples of the Kultur...
...West and South Africa, Madagascar, Korea, New Guinea, Brazil and the Solomon Islands. Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa Maria to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, presented it to Most Rev. Gabriel Breynat, O. M. I., vicar general of that vast area. In December, when the Mackenzie freezes solid, Father Schulte will again fly north, leave at least one plane equipped with wheels, floats and skis. In the north...
...enough to rise and entrain for New York she could not enjoy the kindly President's company, for he deserted her in order to attend his mother's 82nd birthday party at Hyde Park. Here all week in squirely fashion he entertained such notables as Winfield and Maria Jeritza Sheehan; Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary Wallace; Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles Gay of the New York Stock Exchange; Major General John F. O'Ryan; Under...