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Albert Fuchs (Chicago financier) offered all his wealth (more than $2,000,000) for cancer research, on the day after his wife died of cancer in Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Fanny Richter Fuchs, famed pianist, made her debut in the U. S. under Walter Damrosch, retired from the concert stage several years ago because of ill health...
...slept. Perhaps his German premiere would fail like his others. Then. . . . . But when he ambled vaguely down the aisle of his own theatre on the night of August 13, 1876, he felt he would not fail. His wife, Cosima, Liszt's daughter, talked excitedly, pointed to majestic Hans Richter. He was to direct. Wagner himself was calm, sat gazing stodgily at paunched barons, at fierce mustachioed warlords, at old Emperor William I who wiggled. Emperor William's back itched. This time barons ceased their chit-chat as from the orchestra swelled forth the great chords, low symphony...
Recently, the German People's Party (semi-Monarchists) withdrew its two members-Herr Richter, Minister of Finance, Herr Doktor Boelitz, Minister of Education from the Socialist Government of Prussia, headed by Herr Otto Braun. Premier Braun took over the vacant portfolios...
...Adolf Keller of Zurich, Switzerland, and Professor Julius H. Richter of the University of Berlin ascribed the poverty of European Protestantism to disestablishment resulting from revolutions and depreciation of currencies...
...painting represents a man, a virile Venetian with a full beard, carrying a falcon in his hand, and the suggestion has been made that it is a portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. The picture has all the breadth and freedom of treatment that is associated with Titian's name. Mr. Richter, in his book, says he thinks it was probably painted about...