Straus With One S
AST year we had a visit from Richard Strauss, who came in the hope of negotiating for some of his royalties that were frozen by the wag. This week, pasters all over London are carrying the name of Strauss, and once again it is an old man, but the spelling is wrong. Oscar Straus, composer of The Chocolate Soldier and Waltz Dream, is now 78, and has come to conduct a concert of Viennese Music in the Empress Hall at Earl’s Court, which is nothing more nor less than the biggest shed available in London. For a
reporter, he scratched a stave on a piece | of paper and wrote down the opening. notes of his new waltz (it is called | "Here Comes the Waltz’).
, HE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER is| shortly to be revived in London; it | was lately done in America (where) Straus now lives) but rehashed with "modernisations" which the composer | believes will be unnecessary in this| country. (No comment from G. B.) Shaw, whose Arms and the Man was | the original of the libretto.) ) Mr. Straus held court in a London | hotel, complaining between his courte-| ous answers to questions, of English draughts. "And why," he cried, "if | there happens to be no draught, does | someone have to rush and open a win- | dow?" Someone asked why the pub- | licity people give his surname a double | "s", "They are always wrong where-| ever I go," he said, sadly. "There is. nothing to be done about it. I give ; co. in. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 31
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255Straus With One S New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 31
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