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Will you please correct the statement in your next issue, [and state] that the offense was not belonging to the Communist Party but that the aforesaid trio are charged by the Polish government as conspirators and traitors to the country and the punishment adjudged is fully justified. JOHN S. SLEZAK Amsterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...wish he were holding a sack of flour instead of myself! He had muscles like ridged steel. Resting on them was about as comfortable as lying on a pile of steel bars. I used to dread that fourth act like a trip to the dentist." There was also Leo Slezak, who "is very stout; 'I always like to work with you,' he often told me, 'because you are so thin I can actually embrace you on the stage when an embrace is in order. I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jeritza Confesses | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

...from Lully and Rameau, and German operas by Gluck, Mozart, Von Weber, and others, down to the works of modern composers such as Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, and Verdi. Among the prominent opera singers who will probably take part, are Constantine, Bernice Fisher, Maria Gay, Zenatello, Kaphek Mardones, Tavecchia, and Slezak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Series of Ten Concerts | 11/22/1911 | See Source »

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