Word: festspiel
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Gahagan. From Czechoslovakia came a despatch hailing Helen Gahagan, U. S. actress, as "outstanding American success of the Continental opera season." She had sung Tosca at Moravska-Ostrava well enough to be invited to perform in the Salzburg Festspiel, to sing Tosca, Thais and Manon at Bad Reichenhall and in Vienna. Miss Gahagan began taking her voice seriously only one year ago. On the U. S. stage ("Second Ethel Barrymore") she played in Manhattan (1922), Trelawney of the Wells, Young Woodley, The Enchanted April, The Sapphire Ring...
...alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...
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