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Following is a tabulation of figures for other graduate schools of the University: 1935-36 1934-35 Grad. Sch. of Arts and Sciences 598 650 School of Education 84 94 School of Architecture 39 45 Engineering School 102 110 Divinity School 43 46 Special Students 14 16 School of City Planning...
Sightseeing in Vienna for the first time, Britain's Edward of Wales last week inevitably went to see yellow-stuccoed Schönbrunn Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef...
...data on that high bourgeois royalty, Edward of Wales might better have walked through Schönbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard by. Katharina Schratt was a popular Viennese actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend...
...Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, onetime mistress of Archduke Otto (father of the late Emperor Karl) by whom she bore two children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging in the streets...
...pairs.) His first performance was painstaking, tensely sincere. But his program was difficult for an audience which wanted to begin the season with music it knew well and loved. The Philharmonic engaged Klemperer to be "spokesman for the internationally modern composer." And true to his calling he played Schönberg's gilded transcription of Bach's E Flat Prelude and Fugue and Sibelius' stark Second Symphony...