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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strauss: the Waltz King (German). A formless, well-acted, full-length silent biographical film tells how Johann Strauss became a composer in spite of his father's opposition. It is hard to believe that young Strauss's life was as fantastic as this but the important facts are authentic and the scenarist's guesses about the detail are as,; good as anyone's. You lose interest in Strauss but do not give him up for good until he is playing his own tunes at the wedding of his sweetheart to another fellow. Silliest sequence: Strauss jilting the pastry cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Died. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, of Vienna, poet-dramatist, author of Richard Strauss operas (Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos); in Rodaun, Austria ; of heart attack while dressing for the funeral of his son, Franz, 28, suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Vogues | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...little printed notice appeared in the Wiener Zeitung last week and with it passed another relic of oldtime imperial Vienna, the Vienna of Strauss waltzes and jangling, spur-heeled lieutenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frau Anna | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Air Bach Dance-Suite for String Orchestra Purcell-Bliss Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude and Love-Death from and Isolde" "Tristan Wagner "The Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi "Ballet of the Hours," from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYMPHONY HALL IS SCENE OF THIRD POPS CONCERT TONIGHT | 5/3/1929 | See Source »

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