Word: werners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since the War, Germany last week found herself with an army and a War Minister. Celebrating the official promulgation of Germany's new conscription law, handsome grey-haired Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg dropped his title of Reichswehr (Realm's Defense) Minister and reassumed the pre-War title of Kriegsminister (Minister of War). The Reichswehr, too, dropped that name, which it has never liked, to become again Germany's Heer. To cap the day, Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves...
...Finland, away from the world's musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
Most Manhattan critics felt that he was too immature for so important a job, expressed no regrets when the Philharmonic failed to re-engage him. But back in Finland last week Werner Janssen had a hero's welcome. Again the Finns cheered everything he played. Again Sibelius championed him, said: "I cannot say how much I admire his inspiring and ardent interpretation of my intentions...
...Gertrud Hrdliczka, a comely Viennese who was conducting in Russia when she met Werner Hofmann, a U. S. engineer who was installing machinery for a Soviet oil refinery. Conductor Hrdliczka quickly became Mrs. Hofmann, settled down to live in a plain clapboard house in Larchmont, N. Y. For her concert last week she somehow managed to hire 60 expert players from the Philharmonic-Symphony. The men liked her. Her manner was agreeable, her beat graceful and sure. Hrdliczka's concert sounded better than Antonia Brico's which took place four days later. But Antonia Brico had a stiffer...
...Fatal Curiosity, although not so popular as its predecessor, had a real influence on English drama. It was adapted by the German dramatist Werner . . . [which] led to a whole host of plays that became extremely popular in Germany during the 19th Century. They were known as Schicksal Dramen (fate plays). The fate plays came over to England in translation, were enthusiastically received and were in part the forerunners of the romantic melodrama, so characteristic of the last century both in England and in this country, and still in evidence today...