JAZZ IN VIENNA.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 381, 12 March 1937, Page 2

JAZZ IN VIENNA.

Popular Restaurant Is To Be Modernised. While Vienna declares that jazz hat had its day 'and says it will abandon it to revert to the minuet and the waltz, one of its most popular restaurants, the Eisvogel; formerly famous for its good music, has closed in order to be “modernised,” and to reopen with jazz.

Archdukes, bankers, society people, actresses and famous writers and composers w re frequent guests at the Eisvogel and the old guest-book shows that the late Archduke Francis Ferdinand and many other members of the Hapsburg family used to visit it on fine summer evenings to eat the river crab, a fashionable dish. Oscar Strauss, dining at the Eisvogel, got the idea for his "Waltz Dream" love story from watching the woman conductor of the band and an archduke at one of tjie tables. Social and Personal. Miss Dempsey of New Plymouth, who has 'been spending a short holiday with friends here, has returned to New Plymouth.

Dr. Dork Gordon entertained some Criendt at a garden party on ijiursday .afternoon. Her garden is looking quite a picture and full of beautiful blooms. Those present were: Mesdames W. J. Spence, S. Porritt, H. Good, R. Masters, O. Curtis, W. Brown, N. H -Moss, S. Macaiister, and the Misses M. Porritt and B. Masters.

Mrs G- Hall was hostess of an enjoyable afternoon tea party on Thursday. She vias wearing a navy blu•_ and rose floral voile. The drawing room looked gay With vases of cosmos. Those present were- Mesdames S. Porritt, A. W. Budge, W. IT. H. Young, F. R. Tyrcr, L. Jardine E. S. Rutherfurd, H. Kirkwood, J. Cresswell, A. Coleman D. Jefferies, R. Far quharson, F. Uniacke, K. Neal ana the Misses Brownley (2)‘, M. Porritt and C. Uniacke, Rembrandt Still Bankrupt. The fact that Rembrandts from the Russian collections have been fetching up to 100,000 dollars, recaTTe the .act that the great Dutch paLTter died a bankrupt, llhe present-day value of his prolific output must run up into the millions!-., but his bankruptcy' Was never discharged, says the “New York Times.” A few years ago Hendrik van Loon made a valiant attempt to clear the painter’s name by applying to an Amsterdam Court for his discharge. The prosaic "Dutch Court refused to rise to the occasion, perhaps because Dr van Loon had omitted the little matter of an offer' to the creditors. The bankruptcy still stands. The original debts 1 of 1656' could not have amounted to a great deal, but their accumulated interest must by now have swollen the creditors’ claims to something Tike the equivalent of the Dutch naUonal debt. Nevertheless; Rembrandt remains the crowning glory of Amsterdam. His famous “Night Watch”’ in the big red and yellow Rijks Museum has an entire room to itself. Like Rubens of Antwerp and Velazquez of Madrid, he is found everywhere. A French wit once said of him that he left 900 paintings, 2000 of which were in the United States.