Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside him rides "Her Majesty," Antoinette of Luxembourg and of Nassau, who was 21 when he married...
...best section of Act I is "Impromptu" laid in the music publishing office of Ernst Weber at Munich. To it come apple-cheeked Dr. Lessing (Al Shean), his pretty, wide-eyed daughter Sieglinde (Katherine Carrington of Face the Music) and her rustic boy friend Karl (Walter Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall...
...Sonata,"' best scene in Act II. is laid in the Munich Tierpark, a charming scene by Joseph Urban complete with the blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern...
Died. Maurice Dornier, 44, co-designer (with his brother Claudius) of "Whale" flying boats; after a stomach operation; in Munich, Germany...
...Munich, earlier in the week, aristocratic Chancellor von Papen, no baby-kisser, made himself solid by devouring publicly a huge plateful of the ancient city's long, white sausages and washing them down with frothing Münchner. He then launched into a fighting speech, shouted that other powers must at once grant to Germany the right of "armament equality" with themselves. Finally he drew thunderous Munich cheers by asking, ''How can our commerce nourish, if Germany does not enjoy the same respect abroad as other nations? Who will invest in a land which is constantly threatened...