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Both Chairman, 62, and President, 54, come regularly to work in Manhattan; the former from Montclair, N. J.; the latter from a vast estate at Valhalla (Westchester county, N. Y.). President Hartford's Valhalla is no meeting place of brawny heroes or great and faithful warriors; it is a place of shadowy woods, where a man may be alone with dog and horse...
...From coast to coast and frontier to frontier the U. S. people hallowed the memory of their 126,000 War dead. In the national Valhalla at Arlington a granite Cross of Sacrifice was dedicated by Canada to those U. S. soldiers who lost their lives while fighting with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. The great cross, 30 feet in height was unveiled by Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S., and accepted by Frank Billings Kellogg, U. S. Secretary of State, in a moving ceremony. Many dignitaries were present...
...member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power. His hour has come, and he has been called to whatever Valhalla has been prepared...
...Beethoven in Valhalla might smile a trifle bitterly to see his earthly origin made so much of. Immortals, he might sigh, are never allowed to forget that they once were born. That the French are willing to hear him again with honor would hardly yield much gratification to one who would have every right to consider it only their loss if they didn't. Nevertheless in scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France...
...third and last act Brunnhilde comes to her sister Valkyries closely pursued by Wotan who must punish her for treason. Sieglinde is saved by the Valkyries but Wotan causes eternal magical flames to burn around Brunnhilde who is cast out of Valhalla. The flames are to protect until a warrier, strong enough to overpower them, shall come to marry...