Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the station platform, the eight Strasbourg malgré-nous shuffled forlornly, dressed in patched pants of dark Soviet cloth and carrying light wooden boxes and flimsy suitcases. Among them was Oscar Baehr, a husky, 25-year-old, tawny-haired farm boy. As he was driven to the village where his parents have a prosperous farm, he recalled the great Wehrmacht retreat from Russia in 1944 (when he was only 18), then the Soviet P.W. camp at Grozny in the Caucasus, next Siberia, and finally Kiev, where month after month he cracked rocks with other P.W.s and some Ukrainian women...
...Oscar Baehr for the moment was a village celebrity, but leadenly unthrilled. Seven of his best years were gone, in spite of himself...
...notice the fact that Berg's music was full of wrenched, tortured and distinctly unconventional effects. Baritone Josef Herrmann sang the title role with pathos, but no mawkishness. Christl Goltz, currently one of Germany's most popular sopranos, was forceful as the wanton mistress. For Stage Director Oscar Fritz Schuh and Conductor Karl Boehm, who produced Wozzeck in the early '30s, it was like old times. When it was over, Wozzeck got an ovation...
...wittiest woman in the world," said Oscar Wilde of Ada Leverson. Others who admired Ada's sparkle were Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry James and George Bernard Shaw (whom she succeeded as drama critic of the Saturday Review). Venomous with bores, she flattened them joyfully. When a vacation acquaintance buttonholed her with "I don't know whether you realize it ... but my aunt was a Thunderby," Ada cried, "Oh, how terrible! Oughtn't we to inform the management?" Accused of using peroxide on her hair, she flashed that she "only darkened it a little at the roots...
...Leverson died in 1936, deaf, but witty to the last. In addition to her dramatic criticism, she left six novels and at least one unfinished work-to be entitled (she said) The Collected Telegrams of Oscar Wilde. Her third novel, The Limit (1911), now appears in the U.S. for the first time. It is a fine example of the Leverson specialty: Edwardian laughter with an edge...