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...will deny that towering Feodor Chaliapin is an imposing actor, an irreproachable singer of opera. Likewise, many have found him imperiously temperamental. Last week as the sardonic, demonic Mephistopheles of Faust he poured out his ruddy bass to the burghers, dames and daughters of Vienna in the Vienna Opera House. But frowns of annoyance danced on his brow; he found the time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms...
First instalments of Feodor Chaliapin's autobiography were syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers. He wrote that he could remember when he was five, living in East Central Russia in a hut costing a ruble and a half per month.* His father, a clerk, "was very fond of drink and on one occasion did not come home for two days. . . . After a time he became intoxicated every pay day" and beat Mrs. Chaliapin...
...Fleshy Feodor Karamazov has begot, among others, three legitimate sons. The fierce appetites of the sire burn in the brothers. The father is murdered, the oldest son accused. Innocent, he accepts the punishment of Siberian exile, in order to repent the many excesses of his tempestuous nature, thus enters Salvation. The youngest brother finds light and peace in the holy sacrifice of priesthood. The second, whose fate is stark tragedy, has evolved a philosophy of cold rationality, wherein there is neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised...
Died. Aimée Dostoievsky, 56, daughter of Feodor Dostoievsky; in Bolzano, Italy; of tuberculosis. She had written a penetrating sutdy of her novelist father, whose death in 1881 was not recorded in the Occidental press, to which he was then unkown...
...native Atlantans made their debut last week with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the first performance there of Massenet's Don Quichotte, second offering in the annual week of opera. One was a proud, polite horse chosen to carry Feodor Chaliapin, chivalric Knight of the Rueful Countenance. One was a scrubby, taupe donkey chosen for Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful squire. Came the second act with the Don on the quest of his lady's necklace. Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges. Rosinante played his part well...