Word: tonio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clowns can match Ringling's. Perhaps it was for this reason that the Chicago Civic Opera chose Pagliacci for the debut of Baritone Robert Ringling,** son of the late Circus Proprietor Charles Ringling, nephew of the living John. He made a stout, pleasant "Tonio," not half so loud-mouthed as his size portended. The audience liked him, liked, too, Soprano Olga Kargau, wife of a Chicago merchant, who was a new "Nedda...
...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...
They were wrong; they were soldiers and fighters as well. They stood with courage the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune of the decade that followed. And at the time they did perhaps not fully perceive that Tonio Kroeger's last word was not the same hopeless gesture as was the one at the end of "Buddenbrooks". There was something quite hopeful and very determined about it. And this positive feature became apparent also in the author's future production...