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Notes
Preface: The Leaves
1. Jhan Robbins and June Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies,” McCall’s 93 (September 1966).
2. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 133–34.
3. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
4. Ibid.
5. Ida Cook to Rosa Ponselle, March 19, 1956, Rosa Ponselle Papers, Music Division, NYPL, New York.
Chapter 1: The Albert Memorial
1. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 23.
2. Ibid., 21.
3. Ibid., dedication page.
4. Ibid., 21.
5. Jenny Haddon and Diane Pearson, eds., Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, 1960–2010 (Great Britain: Romantic Novelists’ Association, 2010), 8.
6. Cook, Safe Passage, 24.
7. Jhan Robbins and June Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies,” McCall’s 93 (September 1966).
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Alexander Rose, Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002), 2.
11. Anne Littlejohn, The Duchess’s School, 1808–1958 (Alnwick: The Duchess’s School, 1958), 6.
12. Duchess’s School Archives, Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.
13. Cook, Safe Passage, 24.
14. Duchess’s School Archives.
15. Ibid.
16. Duchess’s School Magazine, 1919, Duchess’s School Archives, Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.
17. Duchess’s School Magazine, 1920, Duchess’s School Archives, Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.
18. Cook, Safe Passage, 25.
19. Virginia Nicholson, Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), xi.
20. Ibid., 182–83.
21. Jeanne Henny, interview with the author, March 3, 2020.
22. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
23. Cook, Safe Passage, 26.
24. Ibid., 26–27.
25. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
26. Ibid.
27. “The Vocal Sensation of the World,” Dundee Courier, May 20, 1924.
28. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
29. “Royal Albert Hall Opened by Queen Victoria,” The Guardian, March 30, 1871.
30. Cook, Safe Passage, 28.
31. “Queen of Song Wins All Hearts,” Courier and Argus, October 13, 1924.
32. Cook, Safe Passage, 29.
33. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
34. Galli-Curci to Ida Cook, November 26, 1924, V&A Archives, London.
35. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
36. “English Girls Arrive to Hear Galli-Curci,” New York Times, January 5, 1927.
37. Cook, Safe Passage, 32.
38. Ibid., 33.
39. Ibid., 34.
40. Ida Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera,” Duchess’s School Magazine, 1927, Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.
Chapter 2: The Photograph
1. “English Girls Arrive to Hear Galli-Curci,” New York Times, January 5, 1927.
2. Ida Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera,” Duchess’s School Magazine, 1927, Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.
3. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 37.
4. Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera.”
5. “English Girls Arrive to Hear Galli-Curci.”
6. Cook, Safe Passage, 37.
7. “English Girls Arrive to Hear Galli-Curci.”
8. Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera.”
9. Cook, Safe Passage, 38.
10. Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera.”
11. Ibid.
12. “To Fame by Song,” Daily Mail, October 8, 1924.
13. “Galli-Curci Tells of Her Simple Life,” New York Times, November 8, 1921.
14. “English Girls Arrive to Hear Galli-Curci.”
15. Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera.”
16. Ida Cook letter, cited in Louise Carpenter, “Ida and Louise,” Granta 98, July 2, 2007.
17. Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera.”
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Cook, Safe Passage, 45.
21. Duchess’s School Magazine, 1927.
22. Cook, Safe Passage, 46–47.
23. Ibid., 49.
24. Ibid.
25. Galli-Curci to Ida Cook, June 13, 1927, V&A Archives, London.
26. Galli-Curci to Ida Cook, June 26, 1928, V&A Archives, London.
27. Galli-Curci to Ida Cook, July 21, 1929, V&A Archives, London.
28. Cook, Safe Passage, 58.
29. “Rosa Ponselle has a London Triumph,” New York Times, May 29, 1929.
30. “Irrepressible Applause,” in “Men and Women of Today” column, Courier and Advertiser (Dundee), May 31, 1929.
31. Cook, Safe Passage, 59.
32. Ibid., 57.
33. Ibid., 61; Cook, “Across the Atlantic to Hear Opera.”
34. Ida Cook, “It’s Fun in Fleet Street,” Duchess’s School Magazine, Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.
35. Galli-Curci to Ida Cook, March 6, 1930, V&A Archives, London.
36. Ibid.
37. “Ovation for Galli-Curci,” New York Times, November 16, 1930.
38. Galli-Curci to Ida and Louise Cook, October 16, 1931, V&A Archives, London.
39. Galli-Curci to Ida and Louise Cook, undated letter, V&A Archives, London.
40. Cook, Safe Passage, 69–70.
41. Ibid., 77.
42. Ibid., 64–65.
43. “Pinza: ‘Met’ and Stage Star Dies, Won New Fame in ‘South Pacific,’ ” New York Times, May 9, 1957.
44. Ibid.
45. Cook, Safe Passage, 81.
46. Ibid., 84.
47. Olin Downes, “Clemens Krauss Conducts Again,” New York Times, April 5, 1929.
48. Cook, Safe Passage, 85.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid., 85–86.
51. Ibid.
52. Ida Cook, photograph of Clemens Krauss and Viorica Ursuleac, V&A Archives, London.
Chapter 3: The Romance Writer
1. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 94–95.
2. Associated Press, “War Fear Needless, Asserts Hailsham,” New York Times, July 30, 1934.
3. Cook, Safe Passage, 95.
4. Ida Cook, film treatment, undated, Joshua Logan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 26–27.
5. Ibid.
6. Cook, Safe Passage, 96.
7. Cook, film treatment, 27.
8. Ibid.
9. Clemency Burton-Hill, “Richard Strauss: A Reluctant Nazi,” BBC, June 10, 2014.
10. Götz K. Kende and Signe Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal, Clemens Krauss: Fakten, Verleiche, Rückschlüsse (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1988), 183.
11. “Strauss Hissed and Applauded at Salzburg: Composer’s Presence Held to Defy Hitler,” New York Times, August 17, 1934.
12. Frederick T. Birchall, “Nazis Fail to Harm Salzburg Festival,” New York Times, August 1, 1934.
13. Ida Cook letter cited in Louise Carpenter, “Ida and Louise,” Granta 98, July 2, 2007.
14. Ibid.
15. Cook, film treatment, 27.
16. Ibid., 25.
17. Cook, Safe Passage, 99.
18. Ibid., 98.
19. Viorica Ursuleac to the Cooks, June 2, 1934, V&A Archives, London.
20. Cook, Safe Passage, 101.
21. Ibid., 102.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., 103.
24. British Pathé, “King George V—Jubilee Speech Aka George 5th (1935),” YouTube, April 13, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx4p523wLdU.
25. Joseph McAleer, Passion’s Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 4.
26. Ibid., 71.
27. John Harris, interview with the author, March 20, 2019.
28. McAleer, Passion’s Fortune, 72.
29. Ibid., 154.
30. Ibid., 156.
31. Ibid., 3.
32. Cook, film treatment, 29.
Chapter 4: The Flat
1. Margaret Aitken, interview with the author, October 3, 2019.
2. Terry Gourvish, Dolphin Square: The History of a Unique Building (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 56, 75–77. The Times notice referenced by Gourvish was from the “Flats and Chambers” page, The Times, June 19, 1936.
3. Elisabeth Rethberg to Ida Cook, December 20, 1936, V&A Archives, London.
4. Elisabeth Rethberg to Ida Cook, September 15, [year missing], V&A Archives, London.
5. The dialogue with Mayer-Lismann is taken from Ida Cook, film treatment, undated, Joshua Logan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 30–31.
6. Ibid., 31.
7. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 136.
8. Ibid., 109.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., 113.
11. Ibid., 104.
12. Ida Cook, film treatment, 33.
13. Ibid., 34.
14. Ibid., 28.
15. Herbert F. Peyser, “The Future of Vienna’s Opera,” New York Times, September 22, 1934.
16. Ibid.
17. Götz K. Kende and Signe Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal, Clemens Krauss: Fakten, Verleiche, Rückschlüsse (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1988), 316.
18. Ibid., 183.
19. The machinations around the firing of Fritz Busch are detailed in Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 121–22.
20. Ibid., 198.
21. Berta Geissmar, The Baton and the Jackboot: Recollections off Musical Life (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944), 129–30.
22. “Hitler and Wagner,” The Telegraph, July 25, 2011, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/8659814/Hitler-and-Wagner.html.
23. English translation of the final lines of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 1868.
24. Philippe Jacquard, “L’atelier du Maître,” Société Wilhelm Furtwängler, https://furtwangler.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Atelier-Jacquard-.pdf; Geissmar, Baton and the Jackboot, 129–30.
25. Kende and Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal, 179.
26. Geissmar, The Baton and the Jackboot, 144.
27. Kater, The Twisted Muse, 48.
28. Furtwängler to unknown addressee, May 9, 1936, in Kende and Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal.
29. Herbert F. Peyser, “Berlin and Vienna: Shake-Up of Conductors Causes Uncertainty in Plans of Both Capitals,” New York Times, February 3, 1935.
30. Kater, The Twisted Muse, 53.
31. Herbert F. Peyser, “A Tale of Two Conductors: Positions of Directors of Berlin and Vienna Operas Undergo Changes,” New York Times, September 27, 1936.
32. Kater, The Twisted Muse, 18.
33. Richard Strauss to Clemens Krauss, October 8, 1935, in Kende and Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal, 206–7.
34. Furtwängler to unknown addressee, May 9, 1936, in Kende and Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal.
35. Peyser, “Berlin and Vienna.”
36. Kater, The Twisted Muse, 40.
37. Kende and Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal, 10.
38. Bronislaw Huberman’s letter to the Manchester Guardian is quoted in full in Geissmar, The Baton and the Jackboot, 95–97.
39. Ibid.
40. Cook, Safe Passage, 124.
Chapter 5: The Operas
1. Viorica Ursuleac to Ida and Louise Cook, May 23, 1937, V&A Archives, London.
2. Ibid.
3. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 128.
4. Ibid., 126.
5. Ibid., 127.
6. Jhan Robbins and June Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies,” McCall’s 93 (September 1966).
7. Ida Cook, film treatment, undated, Joshua Logan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 44.
8. Ibid.
9. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
10. Else Mayer-Lismann to Ella Mahler, January 10, 1964, Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem.
11. Cook, film treatment, 54.
12. Ibid., 38.
13. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
14. Ibid.
15. Friedl Bamberger to Ella Mahler, undated, Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Cook, Safe Passage, 149.
20. Friedl Bamberger to Ella Mahler, undated.
21. Ibid.
22. Financial information is contained in Friedl Bamberger Orlando’s restitution file at the Hessian State Archives, Darmstadt.
23. Friedl Bamberger to Ella Mahler, undated.
24. Cook, Safe Passage, 150.
25. “Hitler Strikes Again,” New York Times, March 12, 1938.
26. “German Methods Scored in Britain,” New York Times, March 13, 1938.
27. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960), 351.
28. Ibid.
29. Anthony Grenville, Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933–1970 (Edgware: Vallentine Mitchell, 2009), 6.
30. Cook, Safe Passage, 143.
31. “Miss I. Cook Talks on a Visit to Germany,” Alnwick and County Gazette, May 1938.
32. Cook, film treatment, 41–42.
33. The Hyde Park Corner speech is detailed in Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
34. Clemens Krauss to Adolf Hitler, April 25, 1938, in Kende and Scanzoni, Der Prinzipal, 7.
35. WNYC radio interview with Ida and Louise Cook, April 25, 1950.
36. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
37. Ibid.
38. Cook, Safe Passage, 165–66.
39. WNYC radio interview with Ida and Louise Cook, April 25, 1950.
40. Ibid.
41. Cook, film treatment, 45–46.
42. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
43. Cook, film treatment, 46.
44. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
45. Ida Cook to Erik Maschat, June 9, 1938, BayHStA Intendanz Bayer, Staatsoper 1727, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich.
46. Cook, Safe Passage, 122–23.
47. Cook to Maschat, June 9, 1938.
48. Cook, Safe Passage, 122–23.
49. Ida Cook to Erik Maschat, July 13, 1938, BayHStA Intendanz Bayer, Staatsoper 1727, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich.
50. Paul R. Bartrop, The Evian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 47.
51. Ibid., 49.
52. “Winterton Appointment Stirs Comment,” Jewish Telegraph Agency 4, no. 72, June 24, 1938.
53. Bartrop, The Evian Conference, 49.
54. Ibid., 48.
55. Edwin L. James, “Refugee Task Looming as Enormous Problem,” New York Times, July 10, 1938.
56. Ibid.
57. Robbins and Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
Chapter 6: The List
1. Ida Cook, film treatment, undated, Joshua Logan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 61.
2. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 164.
3. Ilse Bauer Winter to Ella Mahler, undated, Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem.
4. Cook, Safe Passage, 164; Jhan Robbins and June Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies,” McCall’s 93 (September 1966).
5. Cook, Safe Passage, 164.
6. Ibid., 165.
7. Ibid.
8. Robbins and June Robbins, “We Are Scarcely James Bond Ladies.”
9. Ida Cook, “Letter to the Editor,” Daily Telegraph, October 31, 1939.
10. Cook, Safe Passage, 166.
11. Ida Cook, “Letter to the Editor.”
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Cook, Safe Passage, 166.
16. “Diplomatic Responses: The Smallbones Scheme,” in Holocaust and Human Behavior, Facing History and Ourselves, https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-7/diplomatic-responses-smallbones-scheme; “Robert Smallbones (1884–1976),” Jewsih Virtual Library: A Project of AICE, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/robert-smallbones.
