Word: br
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marjorie Lawrence, once the most glamorous of Metropolitan Sieglindes and Brünnhildes. She had made her last exit from that stage mounted on a bay charger at the close of Wagner's Götterdämmerung on March 22, 1941. Since then Marjorie Lawrence had been fighting a battle few thought she could win. Her antagonist: infantile paralysis...
During the next 30 years he became known as one of the founders of gynecology. He took full advantage of new methods of anesthesia and antisepsis, performed seemingly impossible operations, wrote many textbooks. Two of his texts were beautifully illustrated by the late Max Brödel (TIME, March 14, 1938), whom Kelly imported from Germany and installed as head of a new Hopkins department on art in medicine. Modern surgical texts are studded with Kelly procedures...
...Victory had appeared the year before.*It was painted on walls, fences, street corners-wherever there was room. In France the four integers were scrawled in luminous paint which glowed eerily in blacked-out towns. In Paris it was everywhere. Likewise in Brussels, where the Nazi Brüsseler Zeitung found it necessary to try to counteract it editorially...
...Ortrud or Amneris to Delilah at the drop of a spear. An exception among opera singers (most of whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career...
...sturdy, full-throated Wagnerian song. At a time when the mighty Kirsten Flagstad dominated the Metropolitan, Marjorie Lawrence's star was bright enough not to be eclipsed. Off stage, the Australian soprano doted on swimming, tennis, horseback riding; on stage, she seemed equally brimful of health. As Brünnhilde, she surprised and delighted operaphiles by leaping astride her horse and galloping off in an almost unheard-of concurrence with Wagner's stage directions. Less in character, though a triumph, was her startlingly realistic strip tease as Salome...