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...were jangle-nerved last week, but Denmark's hulking pacifist Premier, auburn-bearded, cigar-rolling Thorvald Stauning, was absolutely frantic. Three years ago his Cabinet took the somewhat feminine position that Denmark, if attacked, had better scream for help rather than fight. Announced plump and placid Defense Minister Lauritz Rasmussen...
...approached until this winter when Frida Leider and Maria Olszewska joined the Metropolitan.† Together the oldtimers sat at a table in a night-club scene, watched Lucrezia Bori and Rosa Ponselle do lively impersonations of cigaret girls, after which tiny Lily Pons did an Apache dance with enormous Lauritz Melchior as her shrinking partner and Dancer Rosina Galli, Mr. Gatti's wife, conducted the orchestra...
...Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly sung as regards its principal roles since that unforgettable March afternoon...
...cancelled; prices for room & board were reduced. The Festspielhaus restaurant had been "very tastefully decorated." Then enough people bought tickets at the last minute to fill the house, the weather cleared, and once more Tannhäuser was the first day's opera. Familiar was the cast: fat Lauritz Melchior sang the title rôle; Soprano Maria Muller of the Metropolitan Opera was an able Elizabeth, but (said a U. S. correspondent) "her impersonation wanted in true virginal tenderness and womanliness." The Venusberg scene did not represent "frenzied eroticism" but "revue calisthenics." Venus (Contralto Anni Helm) was "tender...
...Rector of Copenhagen University, Dr. Lauritz V. Birck, erudite Danish economist, spoke last week as follows...