Word: hanse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For 22 years Wagner's Dutchman has been missing from the repertoire of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, but last week it was revived with Baritone Friedrich Schorr as the Dutchman. A famed Norwegian basso, Ivar Andresen, made his debut as the Norwegian Daland, capably acted the jovial sailor but...
Chicago will hear another premiere this season: Camille by Hamilton Forrest, onetime office boy in Samuel Insull's light, power and traction establishment. Camille was scheduled for performance last year, postponed because of insufficient time for rehearsals. Mary Garden will sing the title role. Other operas new to the...
The Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges...
The Author. Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize Winner (Growth of the Soil, 1920), is Norway's No. 1 novelist. By 1918 his books had been translated into 23 languages, bettering Hans Christian Andersen's record by one. Says he, with proud humility: "In 100 years I shall be forgotten...
Ostensibly the proceedings were a trial for High Treason. Three young German army officers (Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Ludin, Friedrich Wendt) were charged with inciting their men to join a Fascist putsch should it be proclaimed. Without quite admitting their guilt the young officers waxed hotly truculent. "I would obey...