Word: wagnerism
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...Wagner v. Meyerbeer...
...recent issue of TIME you made a libelous statement about the "ingratitude" of one Richard Wagner...
...recall correctly the situation, Wagner may have had no grievance against Jewish people in general, but he had a fair grudge against Meyerbeer in particular. While no specific date was given for the newly published Wagner letter, it probably dates from Wagner's Parisian period-or shortly thereafter, a period when Wagner was under the illusion that Meyerbeer was trying to be of great help. Newman, in his great biography of the master, states that Wagner later discovered that all during this period, when he was reduced to complete poverty and was trying desperately to secure a performance...
...misery loves company, young Boudreau can shake hands with John Bernard ("Hans") Lobert, the Phillies' new manager. Lobert is a big-nosed, bighearted, bowlegged little gaffer, dubbed Hans because in his early playing days he resembled and tried to imitate Immortal Hans Wagner. He has 39 years of baseball behind him. But it will take more than experience to shove the Phillies out of the National League cellar. Reason: in order to keep the club from the sheriff, its owner, Gerald Nugent, is forced to sell his most promising players...
...Schuster; $3.75). Authors are Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock, who neatly duetted the equally compendious Men of Music for the same shrewd, music-loving publishers.* In their survey of more than three centuries of opera they give some bassoon blatts to some of opera's most sacred cows (Wagner's Parsifal is largely "plain dreary"). Brockway and Weinstock ticket Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera for its less-than-flawless taste, convict it of indifference to native opera...