Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass into the hands of those who would devote it to cheap amusement." St. Louis. The "Muny Opera" of the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis opened its 13th season three weeks ago. Once devoted mainly to light opera- Gilbert & Sullivan, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar et al.-it has acquired a revolving stage, a number of onetime Shubert musical comedy singers, and last year a Shubert director, Milton I., nephew of Producers Lee & Jake (TIME, June 9. 1930). Its productions are now more in the Broadway manner than in that of the Savoy or the Strauss-Theater (see below...
...feel pleasantly dreamy at the mere mention of An der Schonen Blauen Donau, to lovers of the bustled, candlelit atmosphere of Die Fledermaus and the sprightly, stagily Hungarian Gypsy Baron, there was sadness in the news last week that the Johann-Strauss-Theater in Vienna had gone bankrupt. Not because of any association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz...
...Retired: William Strauss, after 43 years domestic service in and about the White House. Cleveland was President when he began as an assistant gardener...
...made a partner in the firm. Many times a millionaire, he was active in philanthropy, a collector of art treasures. His death left only nine partners in his firm, an unusually small roster. They are: Felix Moritz Warburg, Otto Hermann Kahn, Jerome J. Hanauer, George W. Bovenizer, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Sir William Wiseman, John M. Schiff, Gilbert Wolff Kahn and Frederick M. Warburg...
...Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme by Conductor Clemens Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)?A Habsburg turned conductor gives keen edge to music of a rare, satirical cast...