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...first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...
...swans. Ordered next night to a command performance of the opera, he sees his dreamgirl, a shy debutante, take her mother's box for the first time. By secret assignations they share many a trystful profile, give U. S. audiences ample reason to applaud Danielle Darrieux's Dresden-china features. The young Baroness' mother hears of the affair, packs the girl off to forgetfulness in Trieste, where she pines for her rakish Rudolf, finally returns to him. In the hopeless hideaway of his hunting lodge, their story ends...
...died in 1875, fat, goat-bearded and wealthy, he had served a term on the State supreme court, helped Leland Stanford build the Central Pacific Railroad, filled his brick mansion and adjacent gallery in Sacramento with an extraordinary mess of stuffed birds, shells and European art acquired in Dresden and Paris on his one trip abroad. Ten years later his widow gave the treasures and the gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion and for 50 years faithfully mowed the grass on the Crocker lawn. Curator of the gallery during all that time was an easy...
Place of honor in Professor Ziegler's rubbish was occupied by a futuristic oil painting, The Adventurer by Satirist George Grosz, done in 1917 and sold in 1928 to the Dresden Stadt-Museum. Gaping Nazis gazed at the figure of a cowboy poised with savage alertness and virility amid cubistic vortices of skyscrapers, smokestacks, scaffolding, jazz dancers, bright lights and detached female contours, the Stars & Stripes appearing over his right shoulder. Not on exhibition were any of Grosz's brambly line drawings of Nazi Jew baitings and miscellaneous bestialities which won him, besides an international reputation, the special...
...play opens and closes in 1858. Its title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck (Leo G. Carroll) at Zurich. With Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores...