Word: saint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first temporary exhibition, the Hochschild gallery showed a full size cement model of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge...
...chill afternoon of Feb. 4 last, Saint Gustloff was sitting in his home in Switzerland where for many years he had been spreading the Germanic gospel as a Nazi missionary. Suddenly the door opened and in walked a 26-year-old Yugoslav youth, David Frankfurter, whose blue eyes and rosy cheeks gave him the appearance of a respectable Aryan. As he entered the room he heard Saint Gustloff spitting into the telephone: "Ah, these pigs of Jews and Communists, we will see an end of them!" This was too much for David Frankfurter, who calmly plucked a revolver from...
...Chur, Switzerland, last week Jew Frankfurter stood trial before five sombre-robed judges whose duty was to decide whether or not he had shot Saint Gustloff "in high emotion born of natural cause." If he had acted "in high emotion" the killing would be condoned under Article 50 of the Swiss Criminal Code. With the air of one enjoying the star part in a stage play, David Frankfurter declaimed: "I read Der Stunner, that notorious anti-Semitic German organ, in which there are written things too revolting for any human being to endure whether he be Jew or Gentile...
Meantime the Swiss Federal Council was fearful that Dictator Hitler might produce his big stick and drub Switzerland. As a Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...
...Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...