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Dashed from Church to Adams Common Room and caught last half of House's chamber music concert. The novelty on the program was Wenzel Matiegka's charming if uninspired trio for flute, viola and guitar, with 'cello part added by Schubert; ensemble a bit ragged, but guitarist Richard Zaffron contributed delightfully quaint twanging and strumming. Flutist Karl Kraber ended concert by deftly tossing off virtuoso solo part in Telemann's sturdy A-Minor suite for flute, strings and continuo...
...Henry G. Wenzel, Jr., judge in the New York Court of Appeals, was chief jurist...
...escorted the Queen to the table. In Vienna, at the end of a similar affair, T.R. wrote: "The Emperor and all the others proceeded to rinse their mouths, and then empty them into the finger bowls." (Groping for precedents, Roosevelt recalled that the 18th century Austrian Diplomat Wenzel von Kaunitz had been in the habit of using his toothbrush at the same stage...
Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
...with dynamite, a Sunday dinner at the Caleta Colosal Hotel, the all-night "party" from which Milly gets her crew. As a story of sailors on the beach, the book is entirely convincing, but as the social parable for which Plievier was aiming it does not come off. Hero Wenzel is simply too dull for the conclusions Plievier puts in his mouth...