Word: rudolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunting lodge at Mayerling not far from Vienna the body of the Archduke Rudolf, only son & heir of the Emperor Franz Josef was found shot through the temple, lying by the side of his dead mistress, the beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera...
...years the true story of their deaths has been one of the greatest European mysteries, a delight to novelists and playwrights. There were dozens of versions: Rudolf committed suicide. The pair were killed by a jealous husband. It was a political murder inspired by the Czechs, the Poles or one of the other minorities fighting for state's rights. Members of the Vetsera family murdered...
...lock up the peacocks on opera nights. Here last week Ambroise Thomas' Mignon and Friedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride opened Cincinnati's season: eight weeks of standard grand opera, two of light opera (this year, Vincent Youman's & Herbert Stothart's Wild flower and Rudolf Friml's Firefly). Conductor is Isaac Van Grove. Of the able if not world-celebrated singers the most popular are Sopranos Myrna Sharlow and Josephine Lucchese. Contralto Marta Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment...
...Composer Rudolf Friml (Rose Marie, Vagabond King, Luana) was ordered arrested in Hollywood for failing to provide for his ailing 19-year-old daughter...
...Barretts of Wimpole Street. Not only has Playwright Rudolf Besier succeeded in presenting an interesting phase in the life of famed Poetess Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett, but he has artfully achieved an absorbing picture of gloomy Victorian domesticity. Wisely the play focuses its attention on the family life of the poetess, her two sisters, her six vague but stereotyped brothers who come to pay her dutiful calls in her sick room, her strange, unnatural father. Poet Robert Browning's courtship of Elizabeth is depicted in brief, brilliantly contrasting interludes...