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...burst into the Internationale. Afterwards German Charge d'affaires Dr. Fritz von Twardowski snapped: ''I had no right to participate in a demonstration for or against Stalin or any other Soviet leader. I consider my failure to rise fully justified in that the Red anthem was sung not as a part of the formal program of the Congress but as part of an ovation for Herr Stalin...
...Landauer has other fancies: She gathers old writing paper, bookplates, lottery tickets, railroad passes, war letters, wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since...
...chauffeur." Amid heartbreaking tension the vast State Opera filled to bursting. All correspondents were shut out. Everyone inside was sworn to utter secrecy. An hour and a half later the Opera disgorged. That night it filled again with the same secrecy-sworn galaxy of leaders. They heard Tannhauser sung. To perform by special command of Der Reichsjilhrer, beauteous Prima Dona Maria Mueller, half German and half Czech, had been all but jerked off the boat on, which she was about to sail to Manhattan's Metropolitan...
Their repertory includes most of the old favorites: "The Gondoliers," "Iolanthe," the "Trial by Jury," The Pirates of Penzance," "The Yeomen of the Guard," "The Mikado," "Princess Ida," "Cox and Box," "H. M. S. Pinafore," and "Patience." Portions of many of these operettas have been sung by glee club members since time immemorial, and it is to be expected that some usually enterprising devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan will be so swept away as to join in the choruses from the audience...
...shrewd showwoman like Mary Garden had more to offer. Halfway through the program she stopped to reminisce about Composer Claude Debussy. She was his first Melisande, although Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck fought to have the part sung by Soprano Georgette Leblanc. One night in Paris Debussy's young wife Lili wanted the composer to attend a rich woman's dinner party, asked Mary Garden to exert her influence. Debussy decided to go. A year later he left Lili for the hostess who was better able to provide for his exquisite tastes...