Word: egon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...
...Leider carried a Chicago audience reverently through Wagner's famed Temptation Scene wherein Parsifal, purest of fools, resists and reforms her. No one denied that Frida Leider had able assistance from a good cast that included René Maison as Parsifal and Alexander Kipnis as Gurnemanz. from Maestro Egon Pollak's orchestra, from a reverent audience that had bought every one of the 75?-$4 seats.* But so well did she sing & act that most of those who saw & heard her were far more interested in Kundry's screaming, crawling, writhing, seducing, sobbing than in the allegory...
Using the stage as a soap box, Playwright Toller now harangues through the character of Egon Hinkemann (Maurice Schwartz). Before he marched off to fight for the Fatherland, Egon was a strapping fellow with a beautiful wife (Helen MacKellar). He returns from the fray an emasculated wreck, "no man at all." To make a living he astonishes side show crowds by biting the heads off guinea pigs. "They want blood!" says his manager. They...
Meanwhile things are going badly in the Hinkemann home. Egon constantly hears imaginary laughter ringing in his ears, pitiless, mocking laughter at his infirmity. His best friend seduces, impregnates his wife. She commits suicide. Egon finds himself a piece of rope and walks off the stage to become another victim, Herr Toller would have you believe, of mankind's most savage enemy...
Edward Pawley's acting, Cleon Throck-morton's fast-moving sets, Egon Brecher's wise direction, the novelty of the idea for the stage make Two Seconds interesting, sometimes impressive. The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile...