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...which Paul wrote his famed epistles. Here, as among the frenzied followers of Montanus (about 175 A.D.), he notes the growing importance of women. From the Montanist movement on, "the history of enthusiasm is largely a history of female emancipation, and it is not a reassuring one . . . The sturdiest champion of women's rights will hardly deny that the unfettered exercise of the prophetic ministry by the more devout sex can threaten the ordinary decencies of ecclesiastical order...
...Indianapolis for their 80th Encampment this week went the twelve sturdiest of the Grand Army of the Republic's 84* surviving members. They needed their sturdiness. To G.A.R.'s ancients the raucous bedlam swirling around their chairs in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel was almost as terrifying as Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. But after 2,000 members of the Midwest Federation of Syrian Lebanon Clubs had packed up their tom-toms and left town, the old soldiers began to get attention...
Carmen Jones (music by Georges Bizet; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering...
...coaxes them on with: "Anything you can win you can collect." Nobody but Miner Wayne, who has already had the best years of Cherry's life, collects much. He gets her, his appropriated mine, and a beautiful going-over to boot. All ends well in the sturdiest of melodramas...
...found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...