Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich. A Wragner Festival at the Prince Regent Theatre. July 18-Aug. 19, followed by two performances each of Strauss's Rosenkavalier and Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina...
...could do without the author's comments on it, and on his own self-astounding self. The Author. Thick-spectacled, thick-lipped, thick-nosed, George Sylvester Viereck does not much resemble the famed Hohenzollerns, late ruling family of Germany, from whom he claims to be descended. Born in Munich (1884), he arrived in the U. S. at eleven, was educated at the College of the City of New York, and plunged into journalism. The War put a stop to his propaganda paper, Fatherland (later resumed as American Monthly), brought Viereck persecution but no bodily harm. In the post...
This view was doubly significant because Councilor Goerke was speaking not only of the insurrection in Berlin but also of a simultaneous Fascist setback in Thuringia. The reason why Leader Hitler was at Weimar last week, instead of at Munich, his usual headquarters, was a Socialist-Fascist tug of war in the Thuringian Diet...
...superior, was so pleased with the results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once but it could not dim his reputation as a great interpreter of Haydn, Mozart and the French composers. He has since had big successes all over Europe, in London, at the Hollywood Bowl in 1929, after his Manhattan experience had taught him something of the U. S. public...
...depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain statuettes which his factories mould from designs by Germany's best known sculptors. Months ago Rosenthal managers pointed out a curious fact: the company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their own country. Potter Rosenthal admires the U. S. The Wanderjahr to which every well-to-do German youth feels entitled, Potter Rosenthal spent on the western plains...