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...amorous dalliance, the best Wagnerian opera must appear either pompous and slow or considerably absurd. At present, the majority of opera singers take it for granted that their art places no restriction on their appetites. Eighteen Day Diets are to them a vague rite connected with the folk lore of the nation. Until this condition is altered, opera will continue to be a leisurely playground for pachyderms, and a stronghold for those who do not heed the cigarette advertisements...
Sometime within the next few weeks the Press hopes to issue "The Traditional Ballads of Virginia", edited by A. K. Davis. These ballads, which for years have been collected by the Virginia Folk Lore Society, have been edited carefully, music has been secured...
...past dozen years, it was only last year that alert U. S. investors first became familiar with him (TIME, Oct. i, 1928). Then it was that Manhattan's Lee, Higginson Co. floated part of a $60,000,000 Kreuger & Toll bond issue. Since then, however, Kreuger-lore has been eagerly collected. There have been stories of his private island in the North Sea, of his apartments in Manhattan, Paris, Berlin, of his never carrying matches, of the statue of Diana in the courtyard of his home office. Herr Kreuger has all the qualities necessary for the creation...
LITANY OF WASHINGTON STREET-Vachel Lindsay-Macmillan ($3). A curious potpourri of U. S. lore, in rhythmic U. S. language, which ranks Walt Whitman with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln as a patriot, and proposes to celebrate his birthday (May 31) "with new great maypole dances...
Recently appraised at three-quarters of a million dollars was the General Director's unique 15,000-volume library of curious wine lore. More valuable still, however, are the super-sensitive taste-buds on his tongue, and the keen olfactory sense which enables Mr, Reeves-Smith to classify most wines by merely sniffing their bouquet. For 35 years he has passed upon every vintage offered for purchase to the Savoy. Just now he is enjoying a brief U. S. vacation, resting his taste buds, sticking strictly and amiably for a fortnight to legal U. S. mineral water...