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First new voice to be launched was Wisconsin-born Tenor Eyvind Laholm's (real name: Johan Edwin Johnson). Tenor Laholm had already spent 14 years making himself one of the most famed Wagnerian tenors in Germany, had won personal applause from musical Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But until two years ago, when he became Hitler's favorite singer, he was practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...
...miles on $31 and had averaged 78 strenuous miles a day, but because on his way he had painted about 40 water colors. Last week 25 of them, exhibited at the Manhattan galleries of Charles L. Morgan, made the beginning of a reputation for 21-year-old Eyvind Earle...
...runs in the Earle family. Eyvind's father, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, is noted not only for five successive marriages and a generally Byronic character but for his writing. He recoined the delicate noun "affinity" into its special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...
...prepare himself spiritually for his grueling week of speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger...