Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like a Broadway musical show, the scenes were swift and elaborate. The first was an Alpine rock that looked on a glinting glacier. The second was a prima donna's apartment in a modern Swiss hotel. Then came a corridor of a Parisian hotel, intermission, the Swiss hotel again, the glacier, the balcony of still another hotel set for dining and dancing to a radio's loudspeaker, a street in the middle of the town, a railroad terminal with real trains, the terminal exit with a real automobile, the terminal's tracks again-and then the station...
...Serge Koussevitzky's most debatable novelties in his early days with the Boston Symphony was Pacific 231, by Arthur Honegger, a young French Swiss. When Composer Honegger made his U. S. debut, last week, as conductor of his own works, his orchestra was Mr. Koussevitzky's. Turn about, one sage remarked in the lobby of the Cambridge Theatre, was fair play indeed in this case. Honegger won fame in the U. S. by the snorts and puffs of his giant locomotive. Fair enough, then, that Boston should see him first, hear his Rugby (TIME, Nov. 19) before...
...melodrama a scene of two children ostracizing another child from a game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest, and, later, an avalanche in the Swiss Alps; the stepmother saving the boy, Jean, from a mountain river where at last he has tried to drown himself...
...staggering cost of cablegrams sent by the League of Nations in an effort to persuade Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting (TIME, Dec. 17 & 24) was found last week to total 130,000 Swiss gold francs...
Queen Victoria of Sweden who is generally indisposed and keeps to her hotel on the Riviera, received last week an island in the Swiss Lake Constance from her late brother. Prince Max of Baden, onetime Imperial Chancellor to Wilhelm II of Germany, and first to announce his abdication...