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...That court will judge us all: the Quartermaster General [Ludendorff] of the old Army, his officers and soldiers, who have wanted to do their duty as Germans for the people and the Fatherland, who wanted to fight and die! You may doom us a thousand times and yet the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History will tear to pieces the indictment of the State prosecutor and the sentence of this Court! Her verdict will be acquittal...
Three new German singers have helped to make this season's Ring performances surpass those of many years: Soprano Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune...
...Mistler took it upon himself to find a new Marianne for France. Last week, with a new Cabinet in France, M. Mistler was out of office. To his successors he bequeathed his new goddess, a large, placid pseudo-Roman lady, the work of his good friend Sculptor Pierre Poisson. To the new town hall of Arras belongs the original...
...thousand people were in the building. All but a few hundred on the two lower floors were trapped by the flames. Screaming crowds rushed to the roof where the management had installed cages of live lions, monkeys, bears and a little shrine to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy. Fortunately employes had had a weekly fire drill. There were no fire escapes in the building, but each department was provided with collapsible canvas chutes known as "lifesacks" down which people could slide to the streets. Quick-witted clerks on the fifth floor saved many lives by twisting a life-rope from...
...Atlantic Coast. The Eskimos of Greenland. Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land may well miss them, for the little auk is a staple of their food supply, "Eskimo lollipops" as Curator Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History calls them. In Greenland the Eskimos will beg the Goddess Nivikkaa, sitting at the bottom of the sea, to lift her lamp and let the little auks come up again...