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...pianist was 75-year-old Franz Lehar, the world's greatest living composer of operetta music. His first brush with the Nazis came when he refused to leave his "non-Aryan" wife. After a second arrest, he moved to the Austrian town of Bad Ischl. Army G.I.s found him there last week. The portly oldster spoke of the future: "Music will come again . . . I shall write . . . about the struggle of peoples for freedom. There are many things in my head and tomorrow I start to work...
...most spectacular impresario of his time, who made the name Hammerstein a near-synonym for Broadway. Oscar I was said to have occupied more newspaper space during his heyday than any other American except Theodore Roosevelt. A reckless and rambunctious man, Oscar I made millions in vaudeville and operetta, lost them on grand opera. "The word opera," says Oscar II, "was a nightmare to everyone in the family." Unlike his other grandfather (who used to take little Oscar on rambles and give him whiskey punch before breakfast and Guinness' Stout after supper) ripsnorting old Oscar I never paid...
With rehearsals now in the last stages before the performances of "Iolanthe," the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society last night announced the final castings for the operetta, which will be presented in Agassiz Theatre, on the evenings of May 17, 18, and 19, and on the afternoon...
...different casts will perform in the operetta, playing alternate performances. One group, which will give the May 18 and the May 19 matinee performances, is headed by Hibbard G. James '45, of the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, as Lord Chancellor, Miss Betty Weichel, Radcliffe '46, as Phyllis, Wilfred M. Pickles '48, as Strephon, and Miss Augusta Gifford, Radcliffe '46, as Iolanthe...
Reviving an old annual tradition here, the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society have announced their forthcoming production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe." The operetta will be presented in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, on the evenings of May 17, 18, and 19, just one week before the Dramatic Club's presentation of "Much Ado About Nothing...