Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Credit goes in part to the German-singers now at the Metropolitan, to Conductor Artur Bodanzky who holds tight reins over them all. There is Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannh...
...ship to be built for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., now famed for its "Empress'' ships. First of the new series was the Duchess of Atholl. Came to her recent launching Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl. Hers was the christening bottle. She tended and swung it with the gracious assurance of a stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post to which she graduated in 1924, after holding high executive positions in British educational and Red Cross work. Why, then, was it Mrs. Baldwin who christened, last week, the Duchess of Bedford...
...alas! Imperial Heaven ... observe these things! ... I, the Minister of Heaven . . . am scorched with grief. . . . I am inexpressibly grieved, alarmed and frightened. . . . Knocking my head upon the Earth, I pray Imperial Heaven to hasten and confer gracious deliverance, a speedy and divinely beneficial rain...
...Fantasia ? Philip Guedalla?Harpers ($3). "Tall, unlikely towers steep suddenly out of the mist . . . group themselves into a city," and Historian Guedalla lands at New York to begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight...
Peggy Wood, gracious musical comedy star turned serious actress, is a decorative but not always decisive Portia. The show was launched by Winthrop Ames, producer of many a notable endeavor.* It was as usual in true taste, but not always blood spotted with despair or dreamily alive with the enchantment of the poet's songs of love...