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...came for her to go off to school she was sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. There she discovered the voice that won her successive scholarships from the Juilliard Musical Foundation, months of sound study in Germany, engagements at the Berlin Staatsoper and at the Paris Opéra-Comique. New Yorkers saw her last week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished. She could be fluttery and childlike without seeming foolish. She could be wistful and shy and still suggest a certain...
...town across the border. Salzburg hotels were full to overflowing, 10,000 foreign visitors having arrived as the music season got under way early in August. Day after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place de 1'Opéra in Paris. Packjammed night after night were performances of Reinhardt's Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final days, neither love nor money could obtain tickets for any Toscanini event...
Composer Metz also claims he wrote that other ragtime classic. Ta-Ra-Ra- Boom-De-Ay, a matter of dispute since the tune may have sprung from oldtime honky-tonks as did Frankie & Johnny, or may have been written by one of Metz's colleagues, the late Henry J. Savers. For writing A Hot Time, which Publisher Marks estimates has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, Composer Metz still receives royalties from its frequent cinema and radio performances...
...story of the illegal search for political mastery followed the same course in the mid-19th Century that it follows today. Like Adolf Hitler, Louis Napoleon staged his own opéra boufle "beer hall putsch." Louis' fiasco consisted of a ridiculous attempt to rally the garrison town of Strasbourg behind him for an invasion of Louis Philippe's France. And, like Hitler, Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short...
...Asleep in the Deep" (1898) went big on the road. In New York the new songs were "You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach" (1896), "Take Back Your Gold" (1897), "She's More to be Pitied than Censured" (1898). Then ragtime started its rage. "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E" (1891) was one of the first strikes. Theodore Metz got the mood for "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1896). With ragtime the Negro composers came north, the men who founded present-day Harlem. Negro Rosamond Johnson was one of Marks's prot...