Word: salzburgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swift-rushing River Salzach in the Austrian Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...
About 15 miles from Salzburg in Bavaria is Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler's summer snuggery. Last year the Realmleader tried, with an eminent lack of success, to sabotage the Salzburg music festival by keeping German artists and German tourists from attending (TIME, Sept. 3). This year Herr Hitler had even more cause to think bitterly of the town across the border. Salzburg hotels were full to overflowing, 10,000 foreign visitors having arrived as the music season got under way early in August. Day after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place...
Aside from a single Tristan und Isolde, poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast...
...Toscanini's first orchestra concert last fortnight arrived Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Raja I Rajgan of Kapurthala, and a pretty woman. They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation...
...signed up by Manager Johnson, the only tenor and the most notable acquisition is 32-year-old Charles Kullman. A Yale graduate born in New Haven, Kullman abandoned medicine to study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and at Fontainebleau. Currently he is singing at the packjammed Salzburg music festival...