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When Elektra had its premiere in Dresden in 1909, it nearly shocked the critics out of their seats. For the better part of two hours, Strauss's orchestra rages, shrieks and howls with a kind of demented fury. Moreover, Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's reading of Sophocles bristles...
The show over. Sister was paraded solemnly before TV cameras and bundled into her cage for the trip back to Mahopac. She was a worthy winner - but U.S. dogs were certainly going to take a frightful ribbing from U.S. cats.
Well, if the two weeks aren't to be a total loss, Wellington Frobisher thought to himself, I suppose one must make an effort. Home in Muncie, Indiana, on Christmas vacation from Harvard, Wellington was finding things a frightful bore. Funny, he never noticed how drab the local environs were...
Of this unlikely pair, May was born to greatness of a sort. Lineage, decorum and diligence (constant letter writing and diary keeping) commended her to Victoria, and she was chosen to marry Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in direct line for the throne. Alas, Prince "Eddy," as they called him...
But the outstanding employment for these patriots has, naturally, been reserved until the end. There really is, however, a need for a "Public Taster," corresponding to the renowned "King's Taster" of mediaeval courts. There have been most lamentable cases of blindness and even worse caused by impure beverages of...