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...light. A standard repertoire is presented, with Parsifal and Don Giovanni ambitiously included this year. Picked players from the Cincinnati Symphony perform under able Conductor Isaac Van Grove. The singing is by worthy if not world-famed artists. (New this year: Soprano Helen Freund, Tenors Edward Molitore, Joseph Wetzel, Giuseppe Reschiglian, Baritone Joseph Royer, one-time member of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoo Opera | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS ADVOCATE SOURLY IMPERTINENT | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...portraiture we find several examples that are worthy of attention. The portrait of "Hervey Wetzel" is one of the best with its fine composition, line, and tonality. It is a three-quarter length in profile against a silvery grey background. Henry Wetzel is seated on a chair, the outline of which is a soft undulating line. The splendid contrast of this with the hard vertical lines in the background adds aesthetically to the pictures. The eye also follows diagonal lines all of which form into a well balanced composition. The features themselves are obviously well done and strongly painted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLOR PREDOMINATES IN MOWER EXHIBITION | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory all night, the night before the race. And whoop it up for our hero, name of Dennis, who wears Wetzel suits and snap brim hats, and never moves a muscle of his face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Count Salm von Hoogstraeten was being beaten. One Herman Wetzel, 18-year old upstart, had just taken a set from him 6-2 on the courts of the Red-White Club of Berlin and was ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Flower | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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