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...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 critics outdid one another in hailing the performance as the most brilliant Bayreuth opening in years. For Toscanini it was a great night, his Bayreuth debut. To his presence-perhaps his last engagement as an opera conductor -was ascribed an early sell-out of admissions for the whole season. He is conducting...
...camping with Steinmetz, a young Dutchman wanted to blow up a stump. For dynamite he began mixing potassium chlorate and powdered sulphur but pressed too hard on a lump in the chlorate. A blinding flash, and the youth was found all bloody. Others were excited but Steinmetz, frantic, outdid them, jabbered English, German, gibberish, hopped from bed to chairs till quieted...
Retired. Major Thomas F. Lynch, 77, of Manhattan, Spanish War veteran, oldest civilian employe of the U. S. Army, since 1889 custodian of the Army Building in Manhattan; after 47 years of service. Major Lynch outdid John L. Sullivan in feats of strength...
...Like many fashionable artists, he has ingratiating traits of personality which cause his patrons to regard him as a gentle and delectable monster. When he exhibited in the U. S. four years ago, he sold $100,000 of paintings on the first day of the show and Governor Fuller outdid himself in buying one small canvas for $35,000. As Orpen, British in his diversions as he is in his paintings, plays cricket in his spare moments, Zuloaga's sport is the sport of Spain. He was a bullfighter once and it was after the warm afternoon many years...
...week ago this evening, the Glee Club presented the second and final Yard Concert of the spring. If ever the panegyrics of reviewers and the bromide "outdid itself" are true, they are so for these affairs. The season, the audience, the location all contribute to the excellence of the performances; tradition lends its approval; and the participants never fail to co-operate with programs of musical worth and appeal. No one who has attended a Yard Concert will doubt that the audience is enthusiastic and genuinely appreciative...