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Married. Helen Lee Eames Doherty, step-daughter of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty; and Theodore Wessel, Danish sportsman; at the home of President Juan Bautista Sacasa in Managua, Nicaragua...
...This year Soprano Flagstad is again the Metropolitan's prime drawing-card. As Brunnhilde, she will sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket was sold on her account. But wholehearted Wagnerians realized that Flagstad was only one part in the cycle, no more important than Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior who must battle and die as Siegmund in Walkure, become the swaggering, youth ful hero in Siegfried, the valiant, mis guided pawn in Gotterdammerung, spend some nine hours on the stage in the course of the Ring production. Tenor Melchior made his Metropolitan debut the afternoon...
...Torvald Hoyer's passion for painting that first made him an acrobat. Son of a well-known Copenhagen coal-dealer, he started posing for the Danish court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great hulking youth famed as a school gymnast, his teacher suggested that he ought to travel, to see the great art galleries of Europe. Hoyer promptly picked up another muscular schoolmate named Max and formed a tumbling team. Vaudeville engagements came quickly. Soon they teamed up with four other tumblers, became the Montrose...
...would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...
...very fine artists are also to be heard this week. Tomorrow evening in Jordan Hall, Povla Frijsh, famous Danish soprano, is giving a long and varied program which bids fair to be something quite out of the ordinary and well worth hearing. Songs by Schubert, Grieg, Moussorgsky, Debussy, Sibelius, and Ravel are included in the imposing list which gives one every reason to believe that the superlatives which she earned in her New York reviews were more than justified. The other artist is Mischa Elman, noted violinist...