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...season. The strings were smooth and eloquent. The horns indulged in none of the oldtime bleating. For Die Walküre there were new stage settings by Jonel Jorgulesco, who was more concerned with achieving mass effects than with following Wagner's specific instructions. Friedrich Schorr, as Wotan, wore a scarlet cloak which looked more like a Japanese kimono than a godly robe. One of the lively Valkyries was Charlotte Symons, a debutante from Chicago. Heroine of the evening, a newcomer from the Paris Opera, was Marjorie Lawrence. Australian-born soprano, who donned feathers and breastplate to sing...
...Walküre Brünnhilde is a high-spirited amazon, a goddess sired and loved by Wotan who punishes her by making her mortal and banishing her to a rock surrounded by fire. In Siegfried the perfect hero penetrates the flames and Brünnhilde is a woman radiantly in love. In Götterdämmerung the emotional range is so extended that few singers have been able to compass it successfully. In the first act a great Brünnhilde must be tender, exuberantly happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell...
...have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving Mr. Stebbins of Wagner's "Wotan." There was some difficulty about getting a theatre. The première at the last minute was postponed four days. But on Feb. 26, 1930, The Green Pastures was finally presented in Manhattan...
...squabbling among Nazi groups bent on founding a 100% Teuton religion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, himself a Roman Catholic, recently ordered them to unite as Die Deutsche Glaubens Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff, was present he went...
...question is, whether the cold facts of the situation demand permissive powers to be granted to the Executive, and if they do, whether Congress then has the makings of a real watchdog of liberty and not simply those of a canine with a penchant for baying at the moon. WOTAN...