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...usually assembles its best casts for Boston performances, and next week is no exception. There will be a chance to hear their beautifully sung and staged "Orfeo," the magnificent Wotan of Friederich Schorr, who will very soon be leaving the boards altogether, the fiery Carmen of a French newcomer, Djanel, and the unique Marschallin of Lotte Lehmann in "Der Rosenkavalier" who, like Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," has spent her whole life training for the part. Keeping such a hugely expensive company on its financial feet during the war is becoming increasingly difficult, and this...
...recognized to be as dangerous as the questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...
Smite the hordes of Wotan, ram the gates of hell...
Satan's ranks will scatter, Wotan's swarm depart...
...milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...