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...takes it, but is unhappy, unable to settle down. Then Annice breaks the engagement and there is no need for him to. So he loses his job in despair and starts merrily to the dogs. When he has practically reached them he is rescued 'from freezing to death by Minna Geiger. She falls in love with him, but he realizes that they will never be happy together so he leaves her. He goes back to France, still restless, but he finds that France has changed too and does not satisfy him. Then, by accident, he reads of the suicide...
...Festivals devoted to the ceremonious and supposedly ideal performance of his father's works. A great deal of legendary glory surrounds Siegfried. He is, to begin with, the offspring of a famed romance. Richard Wagner, then entering the full flame of his success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread of his early obscurity and poverty, became enamored of the wife of his great friend and supporter, the renowned conductor Hans von Bülow. She was the daughter of the great pianist and composer Franz Liszt. A strange and rather fearsome complication ensued...
...ladies who assisted the Deutscher Verein in the play were charming. The Queen, Miss Muensterberg, was remarkable, playing her part with a noble reserve. The Princess, Miss Tyng, and Fraulein von Sonnsfeld, Miss Monossowitch, played well together, and reminded one strongly of Minna von Barnhelm and Francisca in Lessing's play which was produced by the Deutscher Verein last year. In the last act, Miss Holden, as Frau von Holzendorf, was very charming. The "Tabakskollegium" of Friedrich Wilhelm I was very well done, and the atmosphere of the low studded room was made impressive by the candlelight...
...realized at the performance of Minna von Barnhelm February 20, for the benefit of the Germanic Museum has made it possible to secure a cast of the statue of "Theodoric," the companion figure for that of "King Arthur" already in the Museum. These two figures are by Peter Vischer, and form part of the sarcophagus of the Emperor Maximilian at Innsbruck...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Deutscher Verein and the Bostoner Deutscher Gesellschafft, Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm" will be presented at the Colonial Theatre at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. The performance will be under the direction of H. Maurice Baumfeld, successor of H. Conried as director of the Deutsches Theater, New York. The proceeds are to be given to the Germanic Museum...