Word: waldemar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year U. S. painting has at last attained an international vogue. The opening of the Whitney Museum started it. Loan exhibitions of U.S. paintings are touring Europe. The Louvre has bought a Thomas Eakins. Famed French Critic Waldemar Georges wrote in surprise six months ago: "Why have we not seen these pictures before? . . . Why do their young men keep swarming to Montparnasse?" For the first time the Venice Bienniel Exhibition of Modern Art will have a permanent building for U. S. painting when it opens in June. Only last month the London Times started a movement to devote...
Tenor Althouse sang first. He wore a conventional cutaway but was supposed to be Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still...
There was no rest for Waldemar either. Because in his anguish he imprecated God. he was condemned after death to ride through the skies nightly accompanied by his dead vassals. A peasant gibbered with fear the night he heard the coffin rattling overhead and the church door banging. The male choristers were the wild-riding skeletons, longing for release...
...Baron Waldemar Von Zedwitz...
...Waldemar Kaempffert's science colyum in the New York Times it was revealed that the late Sir Henry Segrave, racer of motorboats and automobiles, solved the problem of buoyancy in his boats by lining the hull with thousands of ping-pong balls...