Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a "non-Aryan." But most of the other men who wrote Vienna's waltzes in better days are now in the U.S. and last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall a concert of Viennese music, from Mozart to Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, testified to their presence.
The concert was a benefit for an organization called Artists in Need, Inc., which helps poor Austrian...
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