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...story by Hugo von Hofmannstahl fits cunningly the music of Richard Strauss. Der Rosenkavalier has become for many one of the world's great operas, performed too infrequently in the U. S. The role of the Princess contains a most sad and beautiful aria on growing old which Frieda Hempel, Rosa Raisa and Florence Easton have often sung to notable effect. The role of Octavian is to be played by a woman, since the lover masquerades as a woman through much of the action, and is only 17 years old at best...
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: Sir William Wise man, 43, onetime (1916-19) Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S.; George W. Bovenizer, 49, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897; Lewis L. Strauss, 32, wartime confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover (TIME...
Partnerships. To Sir William Wiseman, 43; George W. Bovenizer, 49, and Lewis L. Strauss, 32, came partnerships in the great Manhattan banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Partner Wiseman rose to fame as Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S. from 1916 to 1919. Partner Strauss was confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover during the war. Partner Bovenizer, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897, has been manager of the bond and syndicate departments...
...Strauss' Rosenkavalier...
...were not afraid to bring down upon me the wrath of the musically learned," he wrote, "I would further confide that the Strauss comedy gives me a greater satisfaction than...