Word: druids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flowing white robes of a Druid priestess, Rosa Ponselle, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, waited in a dressing room of London Covent Garden last week. She tapped her foot, tried her voice, added a touch of carmine to her cheeks, adjusted the green wreath on her flowing black hair. Tomorrow her British debut would be over. Tonight she must face the coldest public in the world, a public which had not heard Norma since the late great Lilli Lehmann sang it in London 30 years before, Lehmann who had said: "I would rather sing all three Brünnhildes than...
Timorous Christians had best not probe too deeply into Christian ritual. The flames of Christian candles may blend weirdly with druid fires. Behind a pure-throated Christian anthem may pipe the skirling music of an impish Pan. Mithras, the Persian sun god and onetime idol of the Roman army, was born on Dec. 25. The Easter egg was symbolic before the Christian Easter, symbolic of fertility...
Heads wagged the other way after the performance for Rosa Ponselle had wrought the miracle. Not once had she flinched before the laciest coloratura passages, before measures that took her well into contralto regions, out again and up to the peak of the soprano scale. Her acting as the Druid priestess was less impressive; but critics found little fault, gave unqualified praise to her singing, to Conductor Tullio Serafin who found enough light and beauty in Bellini's score to make it well worth the revival...
Pontifically attired, the Arch-druid welcomed the Prince and Princess, received them formally into the Gorsedd, bestowed upon them the "bardic names" Albert O. Efrog and Betsi O. Efrog...
Last week the American Institute of Homeopathy met in 82nd annual convention at Philadelphia; the American Osteopathic Association in 30th annual convention at Louisville, Ky. Famed John D. ("Bonesetter") Reese of Youngstown, Ohio, was made a "Druid" by the American Gorsedd. All are groping toward methods of keeping humans well, of getting them healthy, once diseased. Homeopathy. The homeopaths still have two medical schools, the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia and the New York Homeopathic Medical College of Manhattan. They have faculty representation at the Universities of California and of Michigan and at the Boston University School of Medicine. Every...