Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decade ago schlagobers inspired homey Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little boy has a nightmare which serves to bring chocolate creams and knall-bonbons on the stage, more pralines, more schlagobers...
...Peterkin-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). FARAWAY - J. B. Priestley - Harper ($2-75). FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50). THE FOUNTAIN-Charles Morgan- Knopf ($2.50). GOD'S ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). GREENBANKS-Dorothy Whipple-Far-rar & Rinehart ($2.50). INHERITANCE-Phyllis Bentley-Mac-millan ($2.50). INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). THE LADY OF THE BOAT - Lady Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS-Rudyard Kipling -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy -Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff...
...Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
...evening at the piano the triumphant waltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fall for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...
...evening at the piano the triumphant weltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fail for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...