Vienna extends a welcome to musicians from over seas as well as ther own people. On Sunday. October 10 one: of the large auditorium was crowded to hear Toland Hyacs, the American negro, whose fine tenor voice was heard to good advantage in negro spirituals and classic selections. The most spectacular events. of the week, However, was, the, funerat of the King of the Hungarian Gypsies, Anton Kooze, who was buried outside Budapest on October 9. Four hundred gypsy minstrels were present in costume and sang and played their native songs about the bier _on which his body was placed. The [Symphony and Philharmonic _or~ lchestras have begun their usual series of concerts. Two. opera Jcompanies and various light operas mat be heard every night. There is a choice of half a dozen good plays, a number of _vaudevilles, cinemas everywhere and of: course the cabarets with turns lasting till Jone o'clock, with general dancing' fill two oF four, There was a Jwidely circulated report that John Cotton's stage version of Somerset Maugham's story "Rain" which is being presented in a German*transation at the Josefstadt Theatre had been barred to minors by the ty fathers but the management in-Jdignantly denied the report, which may have been the same old press agent trick,
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