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Credit goes in part to the German-singers now at the Metropolitan, to Conductor Artur Bodanzky who holds tight reins over them all. There is Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannh...
...bills. Once, the Carews forgot a payment, and the Bowers could not afford a new windmill, so Reef Bowers, pluperfect son, climbed up to fix the old one in the dark- that is where the story opens, with Reef lying in the farmhouse, "dreaming of pain." Downstairs, little Elsa Bowers decides to hate the Carews forever, especially Bayliss Carew, whose "cheeks and lips were like a raspberry. The Carew boy was a raspberry. Elsa giggled a little...
...Carews are a mad tribe. There is pirate blood in their veins, repeating itself with fine atavism. Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where...
...Elsa excused herself, told herself the union was for practical reasons. If she had been willing to go on as a grubbing farm girl, she insisted in her thoughts, she would have married an employe of the Carews, an eerie cowboy with a magic guitar whose dynamic physique had created a great longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold...
Meanwhile the Carews come to their cyclic catastrophe, involve others in business failure. Led by the little flames in the eyes of Chieftainess Hildreth, they close their mansion, departing for fights elsewhere. And Bayliss, onetime representative of the mad tribe, joins Elsa's revolt against it, settles down to work, scandal, pettiness, apparently compensated by love alone. Therefore the story is of Bayliss and Elsa, their happiness-not of the Carews who form its flaming red-&-yellow background...