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...whose behavior carried over into her human incarnation in the three main acts. Nearly everybody in the cast had a turn at her favors. Dr. Goll died of apoplexy when he caught her cheating. An idealistic painter killed himself upon hearing about her past. A feeble old lecher named Schön married her. When he surprised her with his son, Schön gave Lulu a revolver with which to kill herself. Lulu shot him instead...
Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...
...that nothing has been done about the $125,000 per annum which the Duke continues to expect to receive, either from Parliament or from his family. Drawled the Duke to the Princess: "If the worst comes to the worst I can always pick up a living showing people around Schönbrunn; I know it so well...
Imperial pomp such as Austria has not known since the passing of hoary Emperor Franz Josef, reigned in Vienna for one night last week in his favorite Palace of Schönbrunn. For the first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist...
...feet, 168 pounds, he has played both prof baseball and football, and can be a greater pmenace than one would think when he br frequently. Ted was born in Deming, New but he is a graduate of Stuyvesant high school Columbia University in New York. In high sch was a slim but alert center on the eleven, and an all city rating...