Word: visas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under existing U. S. immigration laws, an alien artist who claims distinguished merit may obtain a U. S. visa merely by showing a contract for U. S. performances to a U. S. Consul. England is not so liberal toward foreign artists, permits them to enter for professional purposes only when there is proof that the applicant has qualifications which place him beyond competition with native artists. The French ruling is almost as stringent. Germany, Poland, Russia refuse to let alien artists take their earnings from the country. Italy bans all foreign performers save those who establish residences...
...Heard Texas' big, blatant Blanton and New York's small, publicity-loving Dickstein threaten to pound each other to a pulp in a quarrel on the issue of admitting foreign Boy Scouts into the U. S. without payment of visa fees...
Back to Moscow went Fluff's mistress, obtained a certificate from the State to export Fluff's fur, sped on to Germany where Nazi frontier guards charged $19 as a visa fee for admitting Fluff...
Most Germans, even if they paid the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa, were held up on the Austro-German border on technicalities. But "My Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When...
Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...