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...Reinhardt, 70, famed theatrical producer (The Miracle); of paralysis and pneumonia, after a stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback...
Hitler and the Widow. During the '30s Sir Thomas became worldwide. He guest-conducted Toscanini's New York Philharmonic, appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Opera. At the invitation of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, he took his London Philharmonic to Germany, also conducted the Berlin Opera. Feted by leading Nazis, he met Adolf Hitler, who assured him that his favorite opera was not Die Meistersinger (as always reported by Nazi propagandists) but Franz Lehar's luscious, low-brow Merry Widow. Sir Thomas invited Hitler to visit him in England. "He said," remarked Sir Thomas later...
...contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company of conductors, Weingartner was perhaps the most talented, and it is to Columbia's everlasting credit that they went to Europe to have him record...
...unique performance scheduled for this Friday and Saturday the Germanic Museum will present Huge von Hofmannstahl's play "Jedermann", which used to be given annually, under such eminent directors as Reinhardt, in front of the Salzburg Cathedral in Germany...
...first performance of the play at Salzburg created such a favorable impression that it became a tradition yearly feature, before the war, throughout Germany and Austria. The plot is a greatly elaborated and modernized version of the theme of "Faust...