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Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...
...didn't know the War was over," said Rudolf Kutz. "Nobody told us till 1929. We asked to be sent back, but nobody paid any attention, we had to walk. There are lots of fellows in that Siberian prison who don't know yet that peace has been signed...
...President Samuel Insull returned from Europe, announced that there would be still greater improvement next year. Wagner's Meistersinger and Smetana's Bartered Bride will be added to the repertoire. Four famed European artists have been engaged?Soprano Lotte Lehmann of the Vienna Staatsoper, Soprano Maria Rajdl (Dresden), Baritones Rudolf Bockelmann (Hamburg) and Eduard Habich (Berlin). A fifth newcomer will be Contralto Sonia Sharnova, a native Chicagoan who has toured for two seasons with the German Grand Opera Company...
...were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal Box-Princess Mary and her cousins Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise.* Conductor Bruno Walter arose and swept together the first vigorous strains of the Meistersinger overture. Then were displayed the tight-toned "Walther" of Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal; the homely, bourgeois "Sachs" of Baritone Friedrich Schoor; the heavy, smoothly sung "Eva" of Lotte Lehmann, important soprano of the Vienna Staatsoper. London's opera, although on the upgrade so far as quality is concerned, is still of shorter duration than that of most capital cities. This year...
...Rudolf Friml Album which includes music from You're in Love, High Jinks, Rose Marie, Katinka, The Vagabond King, The Firefly (Victor, $7.50) - Compiled in the radio-hour manner by Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret; presented by the Victor Salon Orchestra and a capable company which includes the composer as pianist...