Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offense not half so shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream of the fiery netherworld, of dancers with slippery hips, of Marigold for whom he signs the devil's book, has the devil's mark seered into his forehead...
...Wrestling Bradford the dream was so real that when Indians set fire to his church and Marigold was sentenced to burn as a witch he dashed into the flames with her. To many a member of the Metropolitan audience the dream was as unreal with its slinky dancers and baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone...
...friend. The polite applause was described in the New York Times as "the most enthusiastic reception given any native music drama that has been produced in New York in ten years.'' No one mentioned the hissing which came from the back of the house after the dream scene of the 15th native work to be produced by the Metropolitan...
...Where did a Puritan pastor dream of dancers and hell fire...
...them have deliberately set out upon a course designed to make salvation from the powers doubly difficult. The seemingly hopeless division of country into completely irreconcilable faction has become an actual fact, and any chance of settling their differences amicably must be viewed as a more or less hopeless dream. The only possible opportunity for accomplishing this lies in the triumph of the ideas of Dollfuss; if anything at all is to be done to arrest the further advance of the Nazis into Austria it must all too obviously be accomplished under a form of government that is, in essence...