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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Chicago, event-of-the-week was the U. S. debut of Soprano Lotte Lehmann. Like Basso Andresen, Soprano Lehmann is famed throughout Europe for her singing of Wagner. Her Sieglinde last week (Die Walkure) lacked illusion because of her bulk. But the texture of her voice was marvelously rich...
...result of Acting President Brett's election was to settle the origin of "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." He was captain of the football team which played Princeton in 1892, the game in which the speech-long attributed to Captain Brett and various other members of the team -originated. Last week the Rutgers Alumni Association announced that credit for the brave words should be given to the late Frank Kingsley Grant, Class of 1895, who broke his leg while leading a flying wedge on the first kickoff. Prostrate upon the field, Footballer Grant philosophically remarked that...
...Jersey City, N. J., John Turkess, 26, wrote a goodbye note to his wife, left $49.40 for funeral expenses, stuffed the door and window cracks of his room, turned several gas jets wide open and lay down to die. As the fumes became stronger he decided to light a last cigaret. The explosion blew out the side of the house, bruised, burned but did not kill John Turkess...
...play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife seldom; when they brought him into Richmond to die, she came as quickly as she could, but too late...