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When the curtain rises on Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan...
...Rogers -Little, Brown ($2.50). Told with detached and crushingly cumulative irony, the story of a handsome university professor whose selfishness wrecks his marriage, leaves him hoping that an early next war will annihilate himself and everything else; fifth and best book by the $10,000 prize-winning author of Dusk at the Grove...
...people sell things, but they imagine that the factory people are dirty and ignorant and that the salesmen are back-slapping parasites whose function is to force their customers to buy things they neither need nor want. The unfortunate clerk who pores over his account books from dawn to dusk is in a blind alley and the slave of his work. "These", says the senior, "are not the things I want to do; surely somewhere in the business world is a job for a college man, perhaps a job I never heard of, perhaps in 'office work' or 'management...
...dusk gathered one day last week an elderly man and his younger companion hurried along the sidewalk near the Trust Company of Georgia building in downtown Atlanta. Neither was aware that they were being followed by Edward E. Conroy, Atlanta chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and several of his G-Men. When the two men were a few yards from the bank the G-Men pounced. One pinned the old man's arms while the others scuffled with the younger man. Before the youth was subdued a G-Man was knocked to the sidewalk, had to dodge...
When the conductor took her familiar, choppy steps across the stage and mounted the podium, she faced 200-odd singers as ruddy-faced, golden-haired and Nordic as herself. At her feet, lost in the dusk and their black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with...