13.
nous
Extract from
Observer
LONDON
HOME OF THE
WALTZ DREAM.
AN ARCHDUKES
ROMANCE.
FAMOUS RESTAURANT
CLOSED.
TO REOPEN WITH
ZZ.
From our own Correspondent.
VIENNA, Friday.
Many have heard with regret that
one of the most popular restaurants in
Vienna, the "Eisvogel," once famous
for its good music, is now closed and
is to be modernised and to repen with
Jazz.
The "Eisvogel" was more than an ordi¬
nary eating place. It was the garden¬
restaurant where all Vienna met. The old
guest-book reveals that the late Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and many other mem¬
bers of the Habsburg family used to visit
it on fine summer evenings to eat the river
crab. Though old Austria possessed a
side on the Adriatic. Trieste and the
other harbour tons were too far from
Vienna, and shellfish from the sea were
rare. But the ordinary river crab was
a fashionable dish, and even archdukes
came to this apparently simple restaurant
to enjoy it.
Not only are dukes and actresses,
bankers and society people liked to come
to the Elsvogel," but also famous writers
and composers were frequent guess.
had simple but excellently cooked Au¬
trian food, with wines from the neigh¬
bouring hills; and on a small platform on
one side of the garden a ladies' orchestra,
in white cotton dresses with a red si
ribbon round the shoulders, played Vien¬
nese tunes
I was told that Oscar Strauss, dining
here with his two libretto writers, got the
idea of a love story from the conductor of
the "Eisvogel" band and an archduke
who was seated at one of the tables. Thus
at the "Eisvogel" the
Waltz Dream
was born,
Arthur Schnitzler, Lehar, and Kalman
were also among the patrons of the res¬
taurant. And now it is clos, awaiting
reopening as a fashionable restaurant
with a jazz-band, but devoid of the spirit
which once inspired Schnitzlers Ana¬
tol and Strauss's
Waltz Dream.
box 449
CASINOS IN OSTERREICH
Baden / Salzburg / Semmering
Roulette — Baccara — Chemin de fer
Österreichische Casino A. G.
Wien III, Schwarzenbergplatz 5a
„OBSERVERGNATIS
1. österr. behördlich konzessioniertes
Unternehmen für Zeitungs-Ausschnitte
Wien I. Wollzeile 11, Telephon R-23-0-43
Ausschnitt aus:
Biblioteks Bhdet,
Stockholm,
Nr. 11/1936.
vom
Karl Wache
Modern Oesterrikisk
Diktning.
Den liberala diktingens havdrepresentanter Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler,
Wassermann och li dans la avidit under de senaste ren. Fran rikin-
gens yngre generation or framballas Felix Braun (f. 1885), som har skrivit
cu rad psykologiska romane, av vilka sarskilt Agnes Altkirchners ger en ut¬
markt bild av handelsen i Osterike ren 1913—1910
nous
Extract from
Observer
LONDON
HOME OF THE
WALTZ DREAM.
AN ARCHDUKES
ROMANCE.
FAMOUS RESTAURANT
CLOSED.
TO REOPEN WITH
ZZ.
From our own Correspondent.
VIENNA, Friday.
Many have heard with regret that
one of the most popular restaurants in
Vienna, the "Eisvogel," once famous
for its good music, is now closed and
is to be modernised and to repen with
Jazz.
The "Eisvogel" was more than an ordi¬
nary eating place. It was the garden¬
restaurant where all Vienna met. The old
guest-book reveals that the late Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and many other mem¬
bers of the Habsburg family used to visit
it on fine summer evenings to eat the river
crab. Though old Austria possessed a
side on the Adriatic. Trieste and the
other harbour tons were too far from
Vienna, and shellfish from the sea were
rare. But the ordinary river crab was
a fashionable dish, and even archdukes
came to this apparently simple restaurant
to enjoy it.
Not only are dukes and actresses,
bankers and society people liked to come
to the Elsvogel," but also famous writers
and composers were frequent guess.
had simple but excellently cooked Au¬
trian food, with wines from the neigh¬
bouring hills; and on a small platform on
one side of the garden a ladies' orchestra,
in white cotton dresses with a red si
ribbon round the shoulders, played Vien¬
nese tunes
I was told that Oscar Strauss, dining
here with his two libretto writers, got the
idea of a love story from the conductor of
the "Eisvogel" band and an archduke
who was seated at one of the tables. Thus
at the "Eisvogel" the
Waltz Dream
was born,
Arthur Schnitzler, Lehar, and Kalman
were also among the patrons of the res¬
taurant. And now it is clos, awaiting
reopening as a fashionable restaurant
with a jazz-band, but devoid of the spirit
which once inspired Schnitzlers Ana¬
tol and Strauss's
Waltz Dream.
box 449
CASINOS IN OSTERREICH
Baden / Salzburg / Semmering
Roulette — Baccara — Chemin de fer
Österreichische Casino A. G.
Wien III, Schwarzenbergplatz 5a
„OBSERVERGNATIS
1. österr. behördlich konzessioniertes
Unternehmen für Zeitungs-Ausschnitte
Wien I. Wollzeile 11, Telephon R-23-0-43
Ausschnitt aus:
Biblioteks Bhdet,
Stockholm,
Nr. 11/1936.
vom
Karl Wache
Modern Oesterrikisk
Diktning.
Den liberala diktingens havdrepresentanter Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler,
Wassermann och li dans la avidit under de senaste ren. Fran rikin-
gens yngre generation or framballas Felix Braun (f. 1885), som har skrivit
cu rad psykologiska romane, av vilka sarskilt Agnes Altkirchners ger en ut¬
markt bild av handelsen i Osterike ren 1913—1910