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Female Support: Alison Keith, as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" (G & S Society); Peggy Lapsley, as Mrs. Gobineau in "The Medium...
With even more subtlety-for this was over her audience's head-she took a crack at racial snobbery. She referred, without elaboration, to "the Gobineaus and the Houston Chamberlains"-meaning the Comte de Gobineau (1816-82), one of the first racists, who in Essai sur I' Inégalité des Races Humaines argued that only the white races are capable of creating culture; of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1926), the fantastic Englishman who married Richard Wagner's daughter Eva, and wrote that Germany is the master race...
Most of the writers popular with the Nazis have little reputation outside Germany. Gobineau and H. S. Chamberlain are discredited; "Mein Kampf" and Dr. Goebbels' pamphlets are not read from any desire for truth or information. Nietzsche, however, is a part of our own cultural inheritance--he has had followers among the intelligentsia of France, England, and the United States. Till now there has been no adequate English biography of this philosopher-prophet, only a few commentaries by such authors as H. L. Mencken, whose book is more Mencken business than Nietzschean, and W. H. Wright, alias...
...nnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom's special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites, was bolstered by new evidence...
Five Oriental Tales?Comte de Gobineau?Viking Press ($2.50). Conflicts of immense critical import have been waged as to whether or not Philosopher Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, (1816-62), was or was not a touring precursor of Nietzsche, which great Nordic, together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made for him in Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated...