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...Miklas Frau Miklas Brother Miklas Sons Daughters Surplus Sons
...last week the new President of Austria lived in three rooms* at 94 Nussdorfer Strasse, Vienna, with his brother and two sons. Married in 1900, this sterling citizen has since begotten from the same wife 11 children, of whom two are priests, two nuns. Frau Leopoldine Miklas lives most of the time in a four-roomed house at Horn, one and a half hours from Vienna by rail, with the President's five youngest sons. Through a quiet life of 56 years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker...
...Fortitude, mein Frau, fortitude", said the husband tenderly embrasing her, and ignoring the trenchant sobs of his children, which now rend the air with renewed vigor. "Suffer we must for the cause of education, so long as Imbecilic editors control its destinies. Soon will come a change, and the latent craving of youth for knowledge will once more be aroused in spite of those who would stifle this yearning forever...
...music-loving Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...
...Frau Cosima Wagner, famed widow, was reported last week to have a radio in her Bayreuth bedroom...