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Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
Islandia lay south of the equator. It was the southernmost tip of the Karain Continent. There is even a map of it (see cut). Its seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...
...important character in Wagner's Götterdämmerung is Grane, the horse which Brünhilde gives to Siegfried as testimony of her love, to which she must sing her final immolation music and then ride bravely into the flaming pyre. A good Grane is as hard to find as a good German tenor. He must look spirited yet be willing to stand quietly while singers sing loudly and at close range, strings whir, brasses blare, drums pound and steam hisses up through the stage traps. In St. Paul, when the German Grand Opera visited there last...
Scheduled to make her debut earlier in the season, she was rehearsing with Grane, famed war horse, when she became tangled in its lead-string; there was a moment's scuffle, the horse stepped upon Mme. Larsen-Todsen. Mme. Muller, a 23-year-old soprano from Czecho-Slovakia, was loudly and justly applauded when she made her first U. S. appearance in Die Walk?...
...following 15 men from the Sophomore class reported for the news competition: K. B. Bond, B. E. Carter, R. C. Cheney, J. W. Cooke, W. D. Grane, W. K. B. Emerson, Jr., W. F. Enright, M. L. Haddon, J. E. Hoskins, C. C. Lund, W. M. McKim, A. M. Reed, P. F. Reniers, R. H. Stiles, R. C. Williams...