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...Vienna-born Director Marek (a lifelong opera lover and author of a Puccini biography) has an answer. He thinks Americans are frightened by serious music, and he wants to "unscare" them. His reasoning: if he turns enough honest dollars on things like Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music and Opera Without Singing, he can afford to risk a few on more esoteric items. His own pet recording project: the huge (oversize symphony, chorus, soloists, four brass choirs) and presumably profitless Requiem by Berlioz. This way, he believes, everybody wins...
Died. Fritzi Scheff, 72, Vienna-born prima donna and the toast of Broadway at the turn of the century; in Manhattan. Leaving the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Scheff became a popular star overnight singing Kiss Me Again in Broadway's opening of Victor Herbert's Mile. Modiste (1905), earned up to $4,000 a week in such musical plays as The Two Roses, Fatinitza and Boccaccio...
...majority of Cambridgeshire's county councilmen agree that Vienna-born Dr. Hildegarde Broda, 42, more than earns the salary she gets as assistant county medical officer in charge of schoolchildren...
Married. Hedy Lamarr, 39, Vienna-born cinemactress (Ecstasy); and millionaire Texas Oilman W. Howard Lee, 45; she for the fifth time (her previous marriages: to Austrian Industrialist Fritz Mandl, Hollywood Writer-Producer Gene Markey, Cinemactor John Loder, Nightclub Owner Ernest Stauffer), he for the second; in New York City...
...evoke atmosphere and create lively scenes. But the European reaction has been full-out. A Zurich critic speaks of her "magic spontaneity . . . completely unsentimental, and as untouched as nature herself ... a phenomenon of our times." Paris' Arts votes "thanks to Grandma Moses for the happiness she shows us." Vienna-born Otto ' Kallir flatly insists that Grandma is "one of the very great painters in America today." In his opinion she outranks even Henri Rousseau, the Paris customs inspector who was the first modern "primitive" painter to be revered by connoisseurs...