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...Lieber Meister. An erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him in Madison. U. S. architecture was then on the rise from a period of post-Civil War jerry-building, and with the death of a great and sound Easterner, Henry Hobson Richardson, the year before, Chicago, rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank...
...testify, Dr. Eckener's explanation seemed likely to be accepted as final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities of such ignition. First, the least probable is ball lightning. I have never seen it and have no knowledge...
Those who feared that the maestro's great days were over were soon undeceived. In August he set musical Salzburg agog with a heaven-storming performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, a glorious Falstaff, an incomparable Die Meister singer (TIME, Aug. 24). Last December he went to Tel Aviv and, with all his oldtime brilliance, led the new Palestine Symphony through its first performance (TIME, Jan. 4). All of this encouraged U. S. music lovers to hope that the maestro was not lost to them forever...
...recognized as the best Ski-meister in the Alps, Hannes Schneider was hired as leading man in the German Film The Wonders of Skiing. The picture popularized skiing in Central Europe, made Hannes Schneider grand wizard of all Europe's ski wizards. Back in St. Anton, he opened his Arlberg school. First month he had 100 pupils. The next month he had 200. The St. Anton natives he had taught free were useful to Skimeister Schneider. He hired them as associate professors. By 1925, Hannes Schneider's Arlberg Ski School was winter headquarters for most of Europe...
Disciplined and deeply musical as was Conductor Walter on the podium, he had working with him no single artist so gifted as Toscanini's Soprano Lotte Lehmann. In the much-rehearsed Meister singer, Lehmann was a vital Eva. In Fidelio she was a dramatic, moving Leonore, even in that opera's static, old-fashioned stretches. Salzburg autograph collectors agreed with critics, pursued Soprano Lehmann in her Dirndl in the streets as often as they did Conductors Walter and Toscanini...