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...rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their country utterly ravished by German armies under the great Feld-marshall August von Mackensen; but they never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country...
...festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
...Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, with a mind as clear-thinking as a calculating machine, is one of the constructive geniuses of post-War Germany. Born in 1877 he was a partner in the Darmstadter-und-National bank until 1923, worked with the Reich Currency Commission that set up the present gold mark standard in Germany, cooperated with the (Charles Gates) Dawes Committee on German reparations. He has been president of the Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German...
Tonight is Harvard night at the Pops Concerts. The following program, starting at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, will be offered. Overture to "Haensel und Gretel" Humperdinck "The Damanation of Faust," three excerpts Berlioz The Harvard Glee Club, Dr. Davison, conductor Give a Rouse Bantock Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Wellkes Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan A Midsummer Night's Dream, suite Mendelssohn "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi The Harvard Glee Club Glorious Apollo Webbe Two English Folk Songs Ar. by Williams and Holst The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Finale, from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner Bacchanale from "Tannahaeuser...
Rupert Brooke, who wrote the above, and Louis Barthou, who has just written a biography,* view the same aspect of Richard Wagner. Both see his crude love-affairs as inherent, important surfaces of his genius rather than detached experiences remote from the mind which was capable of Tristan und Isolde, Der Ring des Nibelungen...