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...scored one resounding triumph after another, including an unheard-of 61 curtain calls in Hamburg. Wrote Die Welt's Klaus Geitel, "They are not stuck to the rhythm. They run under it, draw circles around it. They dance its impulses in the most manifold way and with a glorious freedom. It is a triumph of sweeping, violent beauty, a furious spectacle. The stage vibrates. One has never seen anything like...
With a perfectly glorious Bellow...
Ghastly & Glorious. As an epic, the legend of the Bruce ranks among the noblest achievements of medieval romance; as history, it is miserably beset with errors. Recent researches suggest that the history of the Scottish war of independence must be considerably rewritten, and in this volume a Scottish professor has manfully attempted the task. He summarily deflates the theory that Bruce was merely an ambitious feudal magnate, effectively demonstrates that his movement was fundamentally powered by a patriotic passion for "the community of the realm of Scotland." At times the book is clotted with corrigenda, but it tells the ghastly...
...vivid performance" and said he "sings with enough power and feeling to bring the roof down, and he does." Alta Maloney (Traveler) called it "a whopper of a show-stopper, sung in a voice that made chills go up and down the spine." T.K. Morse (Patriot Ledger) found him "glorious." Bradford Swan (Providence Journal) said Price sang "superbly," and Donald Cragin (Worcester Telegram) felt he performed "with the verve of one who has practiced generations for the moment." Elliot Norton (Boston Record) spoke of his "huge voice of great resonance," and later expanded his praise extensively in his half-hour...
...glorious hours yesterday. It looked like Cliffies might at last be allowed to walk through the front door of Lamont, leave the staircase at any floor, and maybe even use the books. But it never happened...