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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anniversary of his death. A Mozart Theatre for his operas and a Mozarteum for his concerts were built later. After the War, a group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica funeral march in honor of murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the Festival has sounded a steady crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Stevens-Duryea), 72, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by showing lantern slides of his first "gas buggies" (1892), appealing to automobile manufacturers to simplify their motors, revolutionize their designs, eliminate the back seat bounce. Said Inventor Duryea: "With the engine in the rear the seats would come between the front and rear axle and not over the rear axle as in most modern automobiles...
...President in 1920 with Franklin Roosevelt as second fiddle on the ticket. A. Victor ("Vic") Donahey was Governor from 1923 to 1929. George White has been Governor since 1931. Last week these three potent Democrats were at odds over who should oppose standpat Republican Simeon Fess for his Senate seat. Messrs. Donahey and White were both candidates for the Democratic nomination, Governor White campaigning as champion of the New Deal, "Vic" Donahey, lukewarm on New Deal policies, rounding up votes among his old friends, Ohio's farmers. After the campaign was under way Mr. Cox and Senator Bulkley jumped...
Almost immediately there was a bang in the back of the cab. The driver thought another car had backfired. At his destination he found the Major dead, blood streaming from a pistol wound in his head. There was a note on the seat beside...
...hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig Roura pulled the espada from his chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing at the barrier, cut both his legs to the bone. Before Candido Roig Roura died, the great Belmonte had taken...