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Wagner used the legend of the Flying Dutchman for his fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long...
...years Wagner's Dutchman has been missing from the repertoire of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, but last week it was revived with Baritone Friedrich Schorr as the Dutchman. A famed Norwegian basso, Ivar Andresen, made his debut as the Norwegian Daland, capably acted the jovial sailor but disappointed with singing which, according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high...
...biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
...Rawlings and E. M. Daland will be instructors while the following men will hold research fellowships: H. A. Abramson, R. T. Beebe, D. R. Drury, Jacob Lerman '23, G. E. Lewis, A. A. Marlow, O. O. Meyer, and W. T. Salter...
Miss Eleanor Godley of Trenton, N. J., stepped back, dripping but smiling, and surveyed her handiwork. She had splintered a bunting-wrapped bottle of ginger-ale upon the nose of a monster all-metal bombing biplane at the Bristol, Pa., factory of the Huff-Daland Airplanes Inc. Bigger, stronger, all-metal, it was one of many new types of bombing planes that are abuilding in various shops for the Army Air Service, in competition to succeed the Martin bomber as official type for the national bombing fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about...