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Resigned. Dr. Oskar von Miller, 78; as director of Munich's Deutsche Museum, world's greatest natural and technical science museum, which he founded. (Visitors push buttons, pull levers, see the machines work. A Munich law requires every child over 10 to visit the museum once a year...
...form a Cabinet with a "safe majority." The bespectacled Monsignor's answer was of course "nein." The President ignored the Socialists (second largest) and the Communists (third largest). In his quiet study he called a fateful conference of four men whom he trusts: his son and aide Major Oskar von Hindenburg, his State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner. his Acting Chancellor von Papen and Defense Minister-Kurt von Schleicher, the intriguing Machiavelli whose sleek, strong hand has been steadily "taming Hitler" for the past year...
...another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz Lehar. Now Vienna is poverty-ridden. The Tonfilm offers potent competition with the ordinary run of state theatres, and many composers-like Oskar Straus (The Waltz Dream)- have gone over to the talkies. Bustling Berlin can make money with Lehar and Strauss: but Berlin has its Max Reinhardt who, in mounting Die Fledermaus, can give his singers real champagne to drink as they sing "Hoch! Champagner, Konig aller Weine!" To cheer up depressed...
...tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula Bustaba, 12, of Chicago, who learned the violin's four strings by means of color: Bennie Steinberg, 12, of Baltimore; Oskar Shumsky, 12, of Philadelphia...
Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky wrote other music than Boris Godounov. Yet so little is known of it, so little of the man himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people...