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Died. Frau Jacob Amalia Nathanson Freud, 95, mother of famed Neurologist Sigmund Freud; of old age, at Vienna. Frau Freud had 45 other descendants...
...many years Sigmund Freud of Vienna has studied the tortuous ways of the unconscious mind. Moving his pale hands nervously about among the green pagan gods, the bronzes, the bizarre masks which cover the top of his massive desk at his home, he has written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which...
...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...
...public-spirited citizens under municipal patronage, presents its twelve-week al fresco repertoire of light opera and operetta, locally called "Muny Opera." One night last week, St. Louis playgoers motored, taxied or bussed into Forest Park to witness the premiere of the "Muny Opera's" twelfth season-Sigmund Romberg's Nina Rosa, which recently had its debut in Chicago. Observers at rehearsals beheld the new production manager, Milton I. Shubert, nephew of famed Producers Lee & Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition...
...widespread U. S. yearning for a new national anthem was a $3,000 prize competition sponsored by Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan, philanthropist, instigator of the Brooks-Bright Foundation (for the exchange of British and U. S. schoolboys). Last week the judges, Tenor Lambert Murphy, Musical Writer Sigmund Spaeth, Poet Witter Bynner, Baritone Reinald Werrenrath, announced that the best anthem had been submitted by Musical Writer Frederick Herman Martens (words) of Rutherford, N. J., and Pianist Leo Ornstein (music), that they would divide the prize. Final stanza of their anthem, entitled America...