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...concert was a benefit for an organization called Artists in Need, Inc., which helps poor Austrian exiles. Among the conductors who put 65 New York Philharmonikers through a waltzy whirl were Ralph Benatzky (White Horse Inn), Robert Stolz (Two Hearts, Spring Parade in the movies) and a courtesy-Viennese, Jaromir Weinberger, famed Czech polka-&-fugue man (Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer, Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltzes in Manhattan | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Night of Love," which the Shuberts are bravely offering, started off with three strikes. The biggest disappointment is Mr. Robert Stolz, famed as the composer of "Two Hearts in Three Quarters' Time," who offers a few dainty waltzes and then reprises for the rest of the evening. There is no novelty tune, nor anything that is even moderately good jazz, and by the third act you will offer your kingdom for a song. The book combines one dull situation with another. It just isn't fair to ask Marguerite Namara, Helen Gleason and John Lodge to submit to such treatment...

Author: By L. L., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

...Little Flower, acting in his capacity as magistrate, signed a warrant for the arrest of Julius Stolz, president of Interborough News Co., distributors of Man to Man. Then he bustled to a police station, jumped up behind the lieutenant's desk, heard the complaint (offering for sale an "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent or disgusting book or magazine"), released Distributor Stolz in $5,000 bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewage Disposal | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Last week, in the Mayor's City Hall office, Crusader LaGuardia again sat in judgment as a magistrate, heard Distributor Stolz's case, decided to hold him for trial. (Penalty if convicted: up to a year in jail, $1,000 fine, or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewage Disposal | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...dozen indecent magazines which he distributed at a rate of 50,000 copies a month, through five shops in New York and Jersey City, King Newman was out of town, reportedly celebrating the Jewish New Year. This week he turned up, was held for trial along with Distributor Stolz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewage Disposal | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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