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...after the election. Named as his possible successor was General Kurt von Hammerstein, who was seized as a Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...
...small, dark-eyed Italian boys sat in the New York Supreme Court Chamber at Manhattan last week and heard their futures tentatively ordered by Justice Louis A. Valente. The youths were Ruggiero Ricci, 9-year-old violinist whose Eastern debut last autumn made him the musical marvel of the U. S. and his 8-year-old brother Giorgio, whose promise is little less than Ruggiero...
...talent, took him to Louis Persinger who trained Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. Teacher Persinger enthused, put small Ruggiero under the care of Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey for grooming. Later to her went Giorgio. Less and less did the Riccis see their sons. On Nov. 15, 1928, Ruggiero's San Francisco debut was hailed by critics. Next day Father Pietro signed a legal paper thinking (he says) it was a will providing for his boys should he die. Instead the papers made Miss Lackey guardian for Ruggiero and Giorgio. Forthwith she took them to Manhattan where Ruggiero added to his fame (TIME...
...incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate actor, played seductively, sinfully, the rich young bachelor. His prize: Violet Heming, the blonde sculptress...
...anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended critics outdid one another in hailing the performance as the most brilliant Bayreuth opening in years. For Toscanini it was a great night, his Bayreuth debut. To his presence-perhaps his last engagement as an opera conductor -was ascribed an early sell-out of admissions for the whole season. He is conducting all five Tannhauser performances, the three of Tristan. Before him no South European had held the conductor's wand at the Festspielhaus. Thus...