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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-12-2, Page 3=kr THIRD TRY LUCKY FOR WALTZ KING. Justover a CeriterV ago, hand- oome young Johann Straus• picked up his baton at Dons payer's Casino and led hl s fit - teen piece orchestra M the • world's first public performance Of "The Blue Danube," How bright eyes must have sparkled, hearts beating faster, when Vi- enna first heard that immortal refrain! Among several • hundred waltzes, The Blue Danube has remained the Koh -l -Nur in Jo - harm Strauss's musical crown. The Waltz Emperor, they called him—and yet the "Danube" com- memorates the strange fact that the gay and charming composer, was nearly forty before he found an empress to share his throne, wt.11 Vienna worshipped him. , , . enever he played a new waltz of his own comPosition—and this was often — bouquets of rose; were flung at his feet. Absorbed in his music, Johennscarcely noticed his admirers ... until the day when he ,found himself gaz- ing into the eyes of elfin Henri- etta Treffz. ' • PEtty," -the actress, and Jos basin, with his flowing hair and swaggering romantic crave t, Were introduced in a cafe garden. When could they 'meet again? The following Week? At the Grinzing ball? It was sitiftly arranged. Loverstill laugh and, waltz, even to -day, in the Grinzing ball - retell .,, and walk hand-in-hand in the garden where Straus; and' his Etty exchenged their vows. They, were married remantically, in ,St. Stephen's cathedral, and hundreds of people turned out into the cobbled' streets to hum a -bridal' march. Despite •-his bohemian.' tdtes, Strauss eushiened himself in do- raeSticity ae if it ,were a, bower of roses . . . hilt these roses ,had thorns. Across Henriette's ,past lay' a (shadow, a limn who had' abandoned • her, an illegitimate child, cared for by the father's relatives. Strauss forgave, ,end forgot..... grfedt mitelf to 'be therOUglilSe fortunate and happy to b'elong tb Etty, *hem .1 love -with •.all.inY heart," he *vote. "I have,,etic-- ceesled , in 'overprinting many pains that would 'otherwise have overethelmed me. For, with Etty at my side, how can I possibly be in pain?" And Etty-for her part confided to pen,anclsink: "Hew I begin to realize what it means to be compietelye. hapPY. . . ."' With subh happiness, Stiatiss poured out his waltzes.' "Mbrn- ing Papers," ."Voices of Spring," "Tales from the Vienna Woods" — an, belting to this blissful period. He wrote an opera, con- sidered it- useless—and put it away in 5 drawer. Henrietta rooted it out, secretly Agund a producer and, delighted. Strauss by taking him as a surprise te the first performance. So "Die Flederrnans" made its be*. ' Unhappily, time sothetimee brings changes and takes ' forth- right revenge. For sixteen years Johann and Etty forgot the past, and its malice. No word • came, though somewhere her son was growing to a man. Etty fancied that her 'world was substantial and secure. Johann Strauss had been appointed director of the Court Balls: never before had husband and wife enjoyed such wealth. and fame. Then, late one night, StrauSs returned home to a house of silence. And. he recoiled with horror at the sight that confront- ed him. On the floor Etty lay dead -- and about her fluttered the con- - fetti-like remains of a letter torn . into a thousand shreds. The shock of receiving it, the. physi- • ciane asserted, had caused a seizure. Strauss tried in vein to piece the writing togethet, A weapon from the past, the letter had come from Bay's son, but its contents were never known._ With heavy heart -Strauss once , More took up his violin. It Mitt 'net/table that sooner or later be should meet another woman, but his second, romance was another. rose bailled with thorns He was romantic, famous and rich, boa —alas!—by now he was growing old, Perhaps Strauss's great mis" fortene was to imagine himself In love with Lily Dietrich. Her pretence of returning his passion was mere coquetry, In the parks gossiping tongues wags ged. He had not been married a day before he realized his mis- take, Though he madly adored his Lily, his love was not.re- turned. .-Nebody was surprised that an alliance so strange and unhappy presently ended in 'divorce, Strauss was broken, lost. For a time no new waltzes enchanted the crowds and he threatened to withdraw from the musical world altogether. In that som- bre hour he turned to the sym- pathy of the third star in his life, the plumb and motherly Adele Deutsch. An old friend of the family, she had been to solider with Etty, Por, the first time Johann .and Adele saw one .an- other in a new light. Both had become lonely .pid folk. Why should they not settle down together? No courtship was ever more ,placid nor 'mar- riage more , . With Adele as his companion Strauss regained tin • his, old wealth of melody. in- threb-four time.. When he produced a 'nettf -operetta, the stage was still lit- tered . with bouquets — and he bronght ,nome as many .sie he could carry and Ming the into . 'Adele's lap. :Adele gave him .his last 'mti- ments of . happiness. In 1899, • when Strauss .jay dying, she sat at his side. The Viennese news- papers printed exthe 'editions for, the doctbre' binletins: " In those last' unutterable 'sad minutes, Strauss stretched out *a hand to Adele. "You have made me very happy, , Lily," he mur- mured. "1- knew you Would love me at last."' - •' Adele trembled at the other woman's name. "I have alweYs, loved _you, .Tohann," she ,Whis- pered. Out in the' street, suddenly'," unbelieVably, an - organ-drinder began to play. It was to the strains of his • immortal "Blue Danube," that Strauss died, and to those strains all Vienna present- ly lined the streets of the city to:watch him -pass. PUTNEY REPORT OUT -DOES KINSEY Everyone has heard of the new Kinsey Report, the pungent and fact -packed 842 -page scientific treatise on the human female. But have you heard of the Putney Report, the startling 14,000 -page book that casts the vivid new light of scientific research on the love lives and scandals of the Peerage? In his Putney office, 80 -year- old .Geoff White toils at his great work, sparing no blushes, baring skeletons i0 family cupboards, slowly recording the virtues and vices of the bold, bad barons and their pretty ladies, The unscrupulous Earl of Stair, for instance, fell in love with the beautiful widow of Viscount Primrose, though she was resolv- f ed never to wed again. To force her hand, he marched into her room in his nightshirt and stood by the window so that passers-by coald see him. Then she had to marry him to save her reputa- tion!. An Earl of Guildford passion- ately adoredthe stout widow of a baronet, and took her for his third June bride. She was so fat and the weather so hot that they kept her on ice for three days be- fore the ceremonv• Holy Land. Rocks —• Part of a 100 -ton shipment of rocks from historic Biblical sites is unloaded from the SS Excellency at a Jersey City pier. The shipment arrived from Haifa, Wee', with material to build an authentic" Garden of Israel" at Beth Israel Memorial Park. 'Dolt -Yourself Boom Hits Toys, Too Little Girls, Can Bake a Toy Cake, Boys,Cpi Pilir# a Town Red By JAMESFLHWEitS NBA Staff Correspondent A large chunk of the toy in- dustry's ,record $450,000,000 out- put this yea'r, which is about 10 per mit better than '1952, ens- phasizere , the 'kb it ,yourself" idea, Basideeelooking like the real thing, these "toys with a pur- pose" enable kids to actnally use wrenches, wield paint brushes, bake cakes and sew just like mom and pop, They are design- ed for children of, all age,s and ‚interests., t "The treed toward this type of toy can'prbbablor be ertpiained by the influence television, :movies and comic books have, on young-, sters who in turn influence the toymakers," says Robert B. M. Barton, president of the 'rex Manufacturers. "Kids are ne- tuyally, great imitators anyway."' ,LOuis Marx, founder and prebi- dent of Louis Marx & Co., largest toy -manufacturers in the world, says the "dosit-yonrself" theme really caught on a couple of , years, ago. ' Success in this field was dile, he saYe, to the hew high Minuet plastic,' which makes in- tricate detail and authenticity possible. . For, the mechenically-minded boys, the toy -producers are plid- ' ducind scaler reed'el ,farm trac- tors, automobiles and wreckers that strip down eeMpletely and show exact engine' detail., Each toy carries a complete ,assort- ment of tools to do the job, Another industry B, F. IVIlehtrAxt, head of the fast- die:Wing Ideal Toy Ceres me his '1bc-it" line has played a large part in, ,the .cortmany'e increased sales in recent 'years! "Cier vol- ume jumped 'from' $10,000,000 in 1950 to $20,000,000 this year. It, has quadruplecipsince 1947." Teymalter.. Kichtom ,and , his werkers ,.ere, turning eut such . plastic marvels' as a sports' con, vertible equipped' with electric, lighls, horn, battery, oil level gauge and a set of tool for as- serngling. and !making repairs; an 18th Century stage coach that can, be put together and 'taken apart and cliiven by a life -like , figure Yielding reins attached tn real 'harnesses; and .a jiffy car wash station with a water at-- tachment ,and a lever to to* the cars gong the ramp. ' For little girls Ideal has erg-, ated a crop of dolls with -minia- • ture kits for hair and cosmetic care and a. sewing outttp keep them up -to -,date, clo es fash- ions, To delight the kitchen. dabblers there's a new . cake- • baking -setrehased on pepular brand mixee'ered Avelino. The ,...r...wv,;;.v • '14, tee Mitt „ . • , , Everything Bui, Out -Of -Gas is duplicated for mechanically -minded .boy in, this strip -down toy car, which tan be put back together again with a complete set of life -like teals. ekes are baked with radiant heat 'and can be eaten by the kids, or parents—if the cooks are any gocid„ , Retailers ere braced for the Christmas rush: They've laid in heavy supplies of "do-it-yourself" Bents. 'Although, a whopping lousiness is, forecast, most toy mexchonts .say tloey, will settle fek,a. five cent increase in sales. At Macy's "Toy City' there's already—a Beehlsee of activity with about 25 per cent of the toy r ' stock carrying out the "do-it- yourself' idea, Buyer -manager John H., Griffin predicts his sales will beat Iasi year's volume. easily. ' ' e. "The .cosmetic dolls and the s strip -down care velli probably set the selling pace here," he says. "An interesting section of the 'City' is the self-service depart- ment—just like a' super -market," "Right now we got -a campaign going, to make the, little girls tither' by plugging such things as baking and ironing sets, stoves and •refrigerators, and all kinds of realistic household appliances." John Wanamak ere buyer - manager Vincent Maggiore said, "Jewelry making kits and the Everything But Kitchen Sink is in this toy cake -baking set, based on popular. brand mixes and frostings. When batter for toy cake is ready, it's baked in toy oven with radiant heat, fix -it cars have been 'Very popu- lar items here" Other new toys with the career angle are a miniature night loca- tion, TT, truck with revolving spotlight, a Plumber's set with 35 tools and a selection of pipe lengths and eormections, a high- way. shovel crain that operates just like a 'real one, and a com- plete cieffinnmity of wooden buildings ready for any color of Paintlte be applied. A recent boost to the "do-it- yourself!' toy movement was the debut of a new magazine called "Children's Playcraft:" It's a bi-, monthlY publication and will feature things to makeevith easy - to -get materials, team projects with parents and a complete fele: hire on some hobby. Mark Michtom, sales and pro-' motion man for Ideal, explains'. the growing trend toward really,' tic or "do-it-yourself" toys thiez way: "Two or three years ago we came out with some science, fiction and space toys. The ven- ture was a complete flop. Kid; simply wonldn't buy the idea. They're fanatics ,on authenticity and detail" Were they wicked, these earls? R is only a century or two since a mad Earl of Queensberry frenziedly attacked a Holyrood cookboy who was turning the spit in the kitchen, and spitted and roasted him before the fire. A few years later an Earl Ferrers murdered his steward, rode to the gallows in his own coach and six and was hanged with a silken rope! More charming was the third Earl of Tankerville, who in 1715 fell madly in love with a Durham butcher's daughter. When the young lady was banished to Rot- terdam the young earl pursued her and hid on board hen ship in a cask. When they werewell out to sea the earl emerged. And butcher's beauty and handsome aristocrat duly landed for a runaway rnar- riage. Family by family, the "Put- ney Report" records these stories and spares the feelings of no peer's descendants, writes Ronald Garth -Davis in "Tit -Bits." Other men began "The Complete Per- age"—as this monumental refer- ence work is officially called — back in 1884. Five have died in the editorial chair. But the 30th massive volume appears this year, and Geoff White hopes he may live to see the great task completed—some time in 1956! Thanks to the Putney probe, legends of blue blood and high birth are mercilessly discounted. One Duchess' of Gloucester was the natural daughter of r May- fair milliner. A Duchess or Chan- dos' began as an ostletes wife at a roadside inn. Re/ore marrying the Duke, 'she was actually sold to him with a halter around her neck at a country fair! OVeners of a huge slice of.May- fair, the proud Earls of Berkeley could trace descent through 800 years—but at one time the line was saved only by a publican's daughter, The Barrymores, too, • deseend from a sedan -chair por- ter. Tailors, carpenters, 'high- waymen and gipsies have sired some Of our greatest families, A thousand people a. week tour Knowsley Hall, stately ,hozne of the wealthy Derbys. Yet the line. 01 Derby was saved in 1747 by little Lavvy Penton, who rose from a cheap cafe to become the most prominent actress of her day, the original Polly .Peachum in "The Beggar's Opera." In some cases, close -kept sec- rets from the past now disclose the sources of present-day wealth., The Westminster wealth was im- plemented in the eighteenth cen- tury when an Earl of Grosvenor secured &10,000 damages for his. wife's ,adultery with the Duke of Cumberland, the King's brother, In 1719 the eighteen -year-old Duke of Richmond saved himself a fortune when he married the thirteen -year-old daughter of an earl under an arrangement which cancelled gambling debts be- tween the fathers. Then there was the odd Lord Rokeby who saved himself money by wearing only one garment— but to comply with convention he made it look like a full set of clothes. A shirt top and cuffs were sewn to his coat, his socks were part of his shoes and linked with the hems of his trousers. The noble lord climbed into this strange garment through a slit arranged under his coat- tail! A work of eminent scholarship, research on the Putney Report has cost over $12,000 a ;veer. Pub- lic records have been searched, old deed boxes emptied, docu- ments turned out in the attics and cellars of old houses. Alto- gether over $250,000 has been spent, showing up for peers — and for the whole wide world— some of the startling histories of their forefathers, I .!‘ 110:•k ;16.,1k114Lyi:71os ,;(tt • a- "1 wouldn't mind him forgetting, bur anniversary If he would only give me a present now and then." THEFARM CRON A minor revolution in piping has hit the Canadian farm world. The advent of a new flexible, chemical rust proof pipe made from the versatile plastic'poly- thene, may well prove to be the most important step in piping since Cornelius "Whitehouse ,in- vented the basic method of pro- ducing modern steel piping in 1825. This unusual piping, which is being made by a number of manufacturers in Canada, has solved some of the farmers' most serious piping problems. 0 n many farms piping must be laid over long distances to service stock feeding and building out- lets. Conventional piping is dif- ficult and expensive to install and corrodes quickly in certain types of soil. Water freezing and split- ting pipes is also a hazard. s Tough and flexible, polythene can be laid for summer use simply by plowing a farrow ac - cross fields and laying the piping in the trench. A 400 -foot coil' of pipe is light enough to be car- ried on a man's shoulder or lift- ed by it boy, Water under nor - mat pressure does not split the pipe if frozen since its resilient walls can expand. Pipe lengths are joined by a sleeve which is secured with ordinary Is o s e clamps screwed tight. Where the pipe is Planned for year-round use a deeper trench is needed. In recent pipe -laying operation on the farm of Harold Kendal at Starbuck, Man., 25 miles southwest of Winnipeg, it was necessary to dig a seven foot trench to lay several hun- dred feet of 1.14 inch polythene pipe for a sewage line. But the ground had a tendency to cave in immediately behind the power digger and only a flexible pipe which could be laid into the trench at the moment of digging would eliminate the need for ex- pensive shoring up. Using poly- thene piping 400 feet was laid at a total cost of $1 per linear foot including the cost of the seven foot trenching. Polythene is the lightest com- mercially -used plastic. Two hun- dred and fifty feet of 11/2 inch polythene pipe weigh 80 pounds, as compared to 640 pounds for galvanized steel pipe of the same dimentions. A truck would be needed to lift the latter while one man can handle the plastic piping. * a * Polythene piping has also been tried successfully for municipal water systems. At Dunnville, Ont., 1,600 feet of pipe was laid six inches underground and al- lowed to, freeze and h a w Ety Rev. le. d Wars -an LA,. 19.D. noinGarsers;m1e10;17rotoer 60:0305.0 Memory Selection: HO shell sneotdffm tiubeate7 Ititede leles p4h2a:141, • 'Wait for hie law. fsatahIn his atitobiography, RenjamM Franklin tells of a clergyman who was ordered to read the proclam- ation issued by Charles I, com- manding the people to return to Sunday eperts, The congregation was amazed and horrified whet/I their pastor arose and read the royal edict, for most clergYmeIS had refused to read it. What did! such an act mean? When he had finished reading it, however, he thundered, "Remember the Sabr, bath Day to keep it holy," adding, "Brethren, I have laid before you the commandment of your king and the commandment of your God. I leave it to you which of the two ought rather to be 015- served," Inour day no such proclares ation is likely to be issued. Some municipalities are amen din g their laws to allow Sunday oports. But no one is compelled to in- dulge in them. Our governments permit gambling in some forms and are being urged to legalize lotteries for charitable purposes. But we are free at this point, that we do not hate tb engage in any of these. However, we ought ter do more, than refrain from evil. We must proclaim the good. Let our leeclers know that we hold God's laws in highrepute. Those who Would lower the standards do not hesitate to speak: ,,The Toronto East presbytery of tie United Church a its meeting pn November 4, expressed its op- position to legalized lotteries "be- cause it has been proven that they are an,uncertain and inadequate source, of revenue for hospitals." It was also pointed 'out that such lotteries give 'public approval to a 'type of amusement "inimical ftareo moral standards andsociaj wel- A good, citizen is one who does right always, law or no law. That is the best way- to deal with undesirable goVernment and in Just' that way the Christians shook the foundations of the Ro- man Empire and caused it to ac- cept Christianity. We should strive to make every part of our government righteous and effi- cient To keep snow boots new - looking longer, hang them up by clipping the tops to a trou- ser hanger. It holds the boots straight and prevents wrinkling and tracking. Shoes that take a beating from some types of snow boots, receive gentle treat- ment from those 'made of nylon and lined with soft nylon fleece. They are completely 'washable too. throughout the winter. After two years it suffered no adverse effects, according to Public 'Mill - ties Manager, J. Dawson. • This piping is also proving successful in Canadian mines where lightness, ease of instal- lation and flexibility are impor- tant. * Polythene piping is being manufactured in Canada by a number of firms. Last year some 1,000,000 feet was extruded for use throughout the country, and the volume next year is expected to he treble that amount. The first production of Canadian - made polythene resin, the raw material from which the piping is rnade. is expected from a new Edmont on plant late this year. It is manufactured from ethylene gas derived from natural gas piped out of the Woodbend-Leduc field. So light that a small boy could easily carry several hundred feet, rust proof pelythene plastic piping is science's latest contribution to rural water systems. Both flexible and resilient, the piping is resistant to corrosive soil chemicals and can be installed economically. Here we see a farm youngster laying iho piping while his father plows a furrow. A truck would be required to convey the same length of metal pipe.