Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony...
...Germany's numerous opera-houses and concert-halls (he is also one of Germany's top-notch orchestra leaders), Strauss lives quietly and well with his wife and seven servants at his home in the little Bavarian mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Originally the Villa Strauss at Zöppritzstrasse No. 46, was a simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home and adjoining five acres...
...shooting arrested men without trial, were necessary to suppress lawlessness. A "renegade labor-union cast-off" tried to organize the miners, but older workmen, working with Grant's friend, the chief of police, soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn mining engineer, sent to Mexico by the board of directors, report that the mines could produce more than they...
...shouldered, multichinned General Cedillo, onetime Mexican bandit who rode with famed Pancho Villa, has been Strong-man in San Luis Potosí for some 20 years. His private agrarian army, which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potos...
...King and his family "live" at their villa, and Vittorio Emanuele "works" at the Palazzo del Quirinale much as Benito Mussolini "works" at the Palazzo Venezia...