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...Karl Melchior, of the Warburg banking firm (Germany...
Stillstand Moves. First step was to listen to a long elaborate explanation of Germany's present financial position from Dr. Karl Melchior. This led to a few hard words, for Dr. Melchior either did not know or would not say just what assets Germany holds abroad. Moreover, the political situation in Germany was so improved (TIME, Aug. 17) that everyone felt more free to handle the Germans firmly. There was much criticism of German domestic extravagance. From the Wall Street point of view no financial diplomat could better express the hard truth which Germany had yet to be told...
...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...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone...
...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...