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...apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over did an army band mournfully play the national anthem, "Jeszcse Polska Nie Zginela" and follow it with "We, the First Brigade," the special hymn of the Pilsudski Legion...
...rare determined stands on behalf of Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he wanted to produce a new opera in Paris she saw that he had his way. Last week, when it was 163 years old, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide was given its U.S. première by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia...
...music impressed Philadelphians as being astoundingly fresh and vital. Gluck borrowed his characters from Euripides but he gave them new life. His Iphigénie aroused real pity when she prepared to sacrifice herself to the demanding gods. Clytemnestra was a fury as she uttered her defiance. The warrior Achilles provided another stirring climax when he swore to fight the fate that seemed inevitable...
...Philadelphia production left little to be desired. The one setting by Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...
Married, The Infante Don Jose of Bavaria-Bourbon, nephew of Alfonso XIII, onetime King of Spain; and Marisol Maria de Lesseps, granddaughter of the late Vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, projector-builder of the Suez Canal, grandniece of the late famed Empress Eugénie; in Urrugne, France...