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...Dramatically it was Baritone Giuseppe de Luca in a minor role who served best. As Nickelmann he never once stepped out of the well, just poked up his moss-covered head, beat his webbed hands against the side. Yet when with a "Brekekekex" he lost Rautendelein, the audience was sorrier than it ever was for Heinrich. And it was happier for the "Brekekekex" that won her back than for any of her flawless cadenzas...
...accompanied this portrait of sorry sculpture with sorrier statistics. The Association, he said, had collected and spent more than a million, was in debt more than half a million. Twelve years had been allowed for the carving of an adamantine, timeless legend. They had elapsed. The result was only a hugely chipped General Lee, almost insulting in its immense ineptitude. "In 17 months," he declared, "Mr. Borglum produced the first model, all working models necessary to that date, removed 25,000 tons of granite, erected the hoisting engine, built the studio, installed the projecting lens, built the stairway, completed...
Said Son Taft: "I am sorrier than I can say that the people of this community have rejected the ideals and aims for which it [the Citizens' Republican Committee] stood...