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...people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan's Elektra | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories. They are occupied by 40 lively boys, the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna), a choir which Maximilian I founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wiener S | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Died. Baron Rudolf Carl Slatin ("Slatin Pasha''), 75, Austrian hero of the British conquest of the Sudan; after a stomach operation; in Vienna. Protege of heroic General Charles George ("Chi- nese") Gordon, a bey at 24, he surrendered at 27 to the rebel Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed, was held prisoner for eleven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Strictly speaking, His Serene Highness' action was to accept the estate in payment of a $1,000,000 loan he extended some years ago to his Cousin Baron Rudolf von Guttmann, then "Austria's Coal King," later ruined by the crash of Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8, 1931). Ivar Kreuger and other scamps have incorporated many a wildcat company under the lenient laws of Liechtenstein, kept lenient by shrewd, rich Prince Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: Serene | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Thus encouraged, Ambassador Gibson started down the aisle again, reached the rostrum just as German Delegate Dr. Rudolf Nadolny rose to ask, "Does this mean that the delegates shall not be allowed to speak on the resolution as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hoover not Outhoovered | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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