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...Metropolitan stock was not forthcoming. But financial security seemed to lie in the announcement that a two-year contract had been signed with National Broadcasting Co. Twenty-five operas sent over the air will bring in a revenue of $250,000. The first: Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Christmas afternoon...
...White House callers last week: Author Herbert George Wells (chaperoned by Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador); Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, onetime German Chancellor (chaperoned by Ambassador von Prittwitz und Gaffron...
...last week on the stage of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, Germany. As Kurvenal, his faithful manservant, stood by him, Tristan sang feverishly, sometimes shouting, sometimes sinking into exhausted murmurs. Patiently the audience attended his efforts. But a larger audience, more excited, spread all over the world, listened to Tristan und Isolde through loudspeakers. It was a tradition-breaking radio broadcast: first one to come from Bayreuth. To insure its excellence, all other broadcasting in Germany had been hushed. The Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft sent it out to all of Europe on a short wave; British Broadcasting Co. relayed the third...
Married. Prince Johann Aloyse Joseph Marie von und zu Liechtenstein, 31, an heir to the State of Liechtenstein;* and Aleene McFarland, 29, daughter of a Weatherford, Tex. cattle rancher; in London. They met five years ago at a Paris dinner party where she appeared as a dancer...
...stranger training to be the mainstay of a republic than Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was born in Posen (now part of Poland), on Oct. 2 1847 and brought up as a perfect little Junker. His father had been a soldier, all his ancestors were soldiers: no other career was considered for him. He never spoke to his father without snapping to attention. When he was three or four he had for a nurse an ancient harridan who had served as a canteen woman in the Napoleonic wars. When little Paul so far forgot himself...