Word: br
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington Story. A Brünnhildean blonde, 52-year-old Esther Tufty is no word wizard. But rival reporters respect the egocentric energy with which she has built one of the busiest news bureaus in Washington...
Died. Albert Carl Grzesinski, 68, German democrat, Minister of the Interior (1926-30) for the Weimar Republic; of pneumonia; in Queens, N.Y. In 1931, as Berlin's Police President, he tried to gag Rabble-Rouser Hitler, ordered him deported as an undesirable alien, but Chancellor Heinrich Brüning did not sign the order, and a year later the Nazis hounded Grzesinski out of the country...
...gave up just before the end of Brünnhilde's ho-yo-to-ho aria when her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, fumbled. He explained that he hadn't played it for six years...
...Manhattan's Town Hall, Traubel sang the Immolation Scene from Göterdämerung with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. She was quickly offered a Metropolitan contract; this time she was ready. In her Met debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküe, Flagstad sang Brünnhilde and Lauritz Melchior Siegmund. Traubel's opulent tones sent critics away raving. Said the New York Times: "The voice is a glorious one." After an Ann Arbor concert, a reviewer put it in good plain Michigan talk: "Miss Traubel hoisted a couple of tones across Hill Auditorium...
...years Traubel and Flagstad divided most of the leading Wagnerian roles. In Die Walküre, Traubel sang a dozen Sieglindes to Flagstad's Brünnhildes. The usually aloof Flagstad finally said to Traubel: "I think it is now time we turn this around and I sing Sieglinde and you sing Brünnhilde." The change never came off. Shortly afterwards Flagstad returned to German-occupied Norway...