Word: salzburgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once the residence of Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg in the Austrian Alps has held annual summer music festivals since the end of the War. Before recent years, this baroque little city attracted middle-sized international audiences who enjoyed its competent performances of plays and operas with German and Viennese casts, its remote picturesqueness, its calm. By last week, when it was in the midst of another summer season, noisy Salzburg had become definitely the place to go for thousands of U. S. and European tourists of high & low degree...
Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...
...express halted at Salzburg, the King was seen to be accompanied by his grave friend and private secretary of many years, Sir Godfrey Thomas, and by his exuberant friend and sparkling equerry Major Sir John Renton ("Jackie") Aird, but his female guests remained secluded...
...good thing for Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg that he skipped out of Vienna to holiday near Salzburg last week. To President Wilhelm Miklas and Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Supreme Sports Leader of Austria, who remained behind to greet Olympic athletes (see p. 40), massed and vociferous Austrian Nazis offered the most humiliating of insults...
...that succeed. There are really hundreds of thousands of men of genius in the world." This minority opinion is delivered not by Author Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as Ariel's song to a drowned...