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...enough to make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
...Wagnerian soprano of her generation. She has come a long way since she was just a St. Louis druggist's daughter with a fine voice. Now, with her heroic proportions (200 lbs.) exhibited to best advantage in sleek costumes by Hollywood's Adrian, her Isolde and Brünnhilde give her every right to queen it over the Metropolitan Opera's distaff contingent...
...Brödel was brought to the U.S. in 1894 (by Dr. Howard A. Kelly of the Hopkins Big Four) to illustrate medical and surgical texts by Hopkins writers. He practiced and taught a kind of work that color photography has never been able to supplant. An artist with a firsthand knowledge of anatomy can paint the steps of an operation without any confusing detail, leaving out the blood, swabs and the forest of clamps which clutter a photograph...
Scalpel and Torso. Brödel taught his students as he had been taught in Germany. James F. Didusch, who succeeded him at Hopkins, was his first pupil. On the first day, Brödel gave Didusch a scalpel and the torso of a woman, told him to begin dissecting, drawing each layer as he came to it. Didusch still remembers how surprisingly tough the skin was. Next day a girl joined the class. "Here," said Brödel, "let [her] have half the corpse...
...Other Brödel pupils represented in the show are Hopkins' Ranice W. Birch and Annette Burgess, Mayo Clinic's Russell Drake, Yale's Armin Hemberger. Their pictures clearly demonstrate that a good medical artist takes pleasure in beauty as well as scientific exactness. Most delicate are Miss Burgess' paintings of the tissue at the back of the eye, with each vein in glowing color. There is also a careful picture of a seven-and-a-half-day-old human embryo magnified 500 times (see cut), which James Didusch took two months to draw...