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...never been born, 884 of the finest horses in the world delicately chomped their oats in Dublin last week and tripped round & round the paddock in parti-colored flannel blankets. It was the opening of the Dublin Horse Show, greatest event in the Irish social season and an annual magnet for scores of U. S. sportsmen on their way north for Scotland, Aug. 12 and grouse...
...performance of Tristan und Isolde last week drew the biggest crowd of any Tristan in the history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. Contralto Doris Doe, a native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined...
...Another magnet in Manhattan last week was German Soprano Lotte Lehmann, pride of the Chicago Opera, now starting to give concerts in the U. S. Soprano Lehmann is a heavy, Teutonic woman. Her program listed pure German Lieder. But people who tried to get in at the last minute were greeted by a big HOUSE SOLD OUT. Soprano Ljung-berg was one of many musicians who crowded in to hear Lehmann round out each song with marvelous warmth and eloquence...
Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests?the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis. Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1814) started the snowball rolling with a bit of magnetized iron. In 1774 Maximilian Hell, astronomer of the Society of Jesus, fashioned a magnet which, on application, cured a lady's stomach trouble. Mesmer tried similar tricks with Hell magnets himself; to his amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them...
...Hickey, Boston, J. W. Higgins, Jr., Medford, S. Horvits, New Bedford, H. H. Hoskin, Glencoe, Ill., E. S. Hurwitt, Brookline, E. L. Johnson, Cogswell, N. Dakota, B. G. Jordan, Montgomery, Ala., E. Lieberman, Salt Lake City, Utah, J. R. Lourie, Boston, K. W. McMahan, Flora, Ill., I. H. Magnet, Boston, K. L. Meinke, Meridan, Conn., F. J. Murphy, Danbury, Conn., G. M. Noss, Dorchester, H. I. Orentlicher, Brockton, I. Paisner, Brookline, R. C. Plamer, Belmont, A. S. Pierce, Huntington, R. H. Prew, Nashua, N. H., E. C. Rae, New Canann, Conn., J. A. Redshaw, Munhall, Pa., E. H. Reed, Wellesley...