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...Trade, Supply, Transport, and Fuel & Power. Of the four ministers only Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, is not a socialist intellectual. One of the founders of the cooperative movement, Barnes is more the old-style labor leader. Cripps's closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful few who were expelled from the Labor-Party along with Cripps over the Popular Front issue...
When Wilhelm Franz Josef Karl of Austria was a child, Johahn Strauss was in his heaven and all was well with the world. But Wilhelm's youth was soon shadowed by death. First, Cousin Rudolf (the Crown Prince) committed suicide at Mayerling. Then Cousin Franz-Ferdinand (the Heir Apparent) was killed at Sarajevo. Suddenly everyone became terribly solemn and said that young Archduke Wilhelm, the descendant of Holy Roman Emperors, would soon occupy a throne...
Until he quarreled with his country's masters, Strauss was a servant of the Nazis. Because he is old and they are proud of him, the Germans have dropped all denazification proceedings against him. His works are frequently played in Germany now, and his past errors generally forgiven. Since the war, he has lived in privacy in small Swiss resorts, occasionally working at music. His only income, about $1,000 a year, has come from royalties on Swiss and Swedish performances of his works...
Gratitude from a Waitress. Last May, invited to conduct the London Philharmonic for one concert, he replied that one concert would not be worth his while. Britain was poor, but not too poor to help. Last week's concert was the first of six in a Strauss festival: two he will conduct himself; the others will be given in his honor. Wealthy Sir Thomas (Beecham Pills) and the BBC chipped in with extra concerts. From a waitress came a ten-shilling postal order "because I come from a musical family." The British Treasury promised to "consider favorably" a proposal...
...Manhattan, too, Composer Strauss was having his innings. Last winter, the up-&-coming New York City Opera Company successfully revived Strauss's 1912 opera Ariadne auf Naxos, never before heard in New York. Last week, for this fall's first performance of Ariadne, the City Opera unwrapped two shining new stars named Wilma Spence and Suzy Morris...