Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a season. The strings were smooth and eloquent. The horns indulged in none of the oldtime bleating. For Die Walküre there were new stage settings by Jonel Jorgulesco, who was more concerned with achieving mass effects than with following Wagner's specific instructions. Friedrich Schorr, as Wotan, wore a scarlet cloak which looked more like a Japanese kimono than a godly robe. One of the lively Valkyries was Charlotte Symons, a debutante from Chicago. Heroine of the evening, a newcomer from the Paris Opera, was Marjorie Lawrence. Australian-born soprano, who donned feathers and breastplate...
...contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
...with the Prussian censor, became widely known in radical intellectual circles. At the age of 24 he was editor of a radical paper in Cologne, helped to boost its circulation in six months from 885 to 3,200, before it was suppressed. While editor of the paper he met Friedrich Engels, tall, good-natured son of a wealthy manufacturer, famed for drinking bouts and for philosophic and economic articles in obscure journals. Engels had also begun his literary career by writing bad verse. Their first meeting was unfriendly, since Marx identified Engels with a group of irresponsible Berlin bohemians...
...Jennings Bryan ("The Earth," said he, "speaks to Bryan but he doesn't hear a sound"). An able administrator, he turned his museum into a splendidly staffed and equipped capital of scientific research. Died. Frau Elizabeth FÖrster-Nietzsche, 89, only surviving sister of the late Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, his nurse and secretary during the eleven years before his death in 1900; in Weimar...
...story of two young thespians, man and wife, whose failure to secure parts has driven them to the margin of starvation. Seaching for a fresh face, a producer is taken with a photograph of the wife and offers her the lead in his forthcoming production which is to star Friedrich Gurtler, a tremendous matinee idol who is also, as he himself delicately puts it, a swine. This means that he gets what he wants and at the moment he has an uncontrollable yen for the young wife. She loves her husband deeply but Gurtler, the cad, tells her candidly that...