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...persuasion Pandar arranges a meeting, silences scruples, fans the flame, stages an assignation at his house on a stormy night. Troilus wins his love and is temporarily happy. Then Calchas in the Greek camp manages to get his daughter exchanged for a Trojan prisoner. Greek Warrior Diomede cocks his helmet at her, and soon to good purpose. Pining Troilus hears rumors of Cressida's faithlessness. When they are confirmed he is not sorry to meet death on Achilles' spear. Famed English Sculptor Eric Gill (who did inter alia the Leeds University War Memorial and London's Westminster...
...sang in Die Götterdämmerung. Tenor De Loor gave a stodgy, dark-toned impersonation of Wagner's youthful Siegfried. Hofmann's Hagen might have seemed deeply sinister if mighty Michael Bohnen had not sung the same role so recently, in the same black cape, the same black-winged helmet...
...there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria in favor of his son (the present Tsar Boris) and grim, old Rupprecht, the deposed Crown Prince of Bavaria. In Coburg last week everyone called Rupprecht "Your Majesty." He happens...
...Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds. Not only is he not thinking of resigning, but he intends to move from the Magdeburg Steel Helmet headquarters to Berlin, where he will be in closer touch with the government in carrying out special duties...
...They sometimes say in our village That a helmet has no use at all ... It serves to give courage To those who have none...