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Reasons for the growing interest in Wagner are the contingent of excellent German artists now at the Met; the Company's acquisition last year of Soprano Frida Leider, Contralto Maria Olszewska and Basso Ludwig Hofmann; the improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner...
Tenor Paul Althouse, a Pennsylvanian like Thomas, looked better in a bearskin than Tenor Lauritz Melchior who usually sings Siegmund. And he sang the taxing music every bit as well. Twelve years ago critics used to find fault with Althouse's bleating but now, at 44, his voice is perfectly controlled, rich with color. Thoroughly exciting was the scene where he pulls Wotan's sword out of the ash tree. He jumped up on the table, grasped the hilt firmly, steadied himself and gave a mighty jerk that was felt throughout the audience...
Died. Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior, 62, German banker (M. M. Warburg & Co.) and reparations spokesman, onetime board vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements; of heart disease and arteriosclerosis; in Hamburg...
Divorced. By Charlotte Louise Juliette Goyon de Matignon Grimaldi, hereditary princess of Monaco, duchess of Valentinois, 34, only daughter of Monaco's Prince Louis II: Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior, 37, born Count de Polignac, crowned Prince Grimaldi of Monaco at his 1920 wedding; in Monte Carlo. Grounds: some Monaco republicans wanted Prince Pierre for President. To get Louis II's permission for divorce, Charlotte signed over her hereditary rights to the throne to her only son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand...
...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...