Word: wotans
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Most startling ideas of the new religion were: the Old Testament, being a Hebrew Book, is to be forbidden in German Sunday Schools. German Christians will substitute for it 100% German mythology-Wotan for Moses, Siegfried for Saul. Saints of the new religion will be such War heroes as that potent air fighter, the late Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...bewildering moment it seemed as though a ventriloquist were taking part in the performance of Die Walküre given last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Soprano Frida Leider, singing Brünnhilde, had sunk limply to the ground, crushed by Wotan's wrathy reprimand. Feebly, brokenly she started remonstrating with him. Then her voice died away. Another soprano voice, shriller, more biting than Madame Leider's, came out from the wings, sang until Madame Leider, regaining her composure, stood up and finished the performance so capably that most of the audience thought their ears...
...hits to accompany the customers' march down the aisles, the clatter-bang of seats. Its prelude establishes the play's mood, introduces definite themes, just as Wagner introduced themes in his preludes to develop them later on. The people in Show Boat have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver's face. Julie, the quadroon, has her tragedy suggested...
...imposing as a board chairman of the old school, is Basso Witherspoon. His gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime Red Cross...
...Berlin, Michael Bohnen, most currently famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue...