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Published last fortnight was The Terrible Gustave Dore (Marchbanks Press; $2.50), a thoughtful reflection on that "agreeable terror." It is an unpretentious, revealing study. By comparing his subject with the surrealists, Author Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Manhattan teacher and bibliophile, deftly indicates the psychological sources of Dore's work. By recalling his lesser-known achievements in cartooning, the book rounds out the French giant of 19th-Century illustration for those who know him only in his solemn Inferno and Bible, farcical Rabelais and Droll Stories...
Foreshadowing the fruition of that talent is the earliest of the 23 drawings with which Author Lehmann-Haupt records the growth of Dore's style. It is the childhood vision of his Strasbourg schoolroom. Its squirming, unposed action bespeaks an eye that never let go of much (an asset unmistakable in a later-year impression of a London crowd, which echoed the same theme of hellishly snarled humanity). In the early schoolroom satire there is also more than a suggestion of how little the artist was ever able to let go of his mother. When she died...
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, with Bruno Walter at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides). Grade B performance and recording; Helen Traubel's Victor version is still tops...
When Soprano Lotte Lehmann, hired for a selected group of Schubert Lieder, complained that the management had refused to sell extra seats on the stage, and that she felt lonely without a stageful of her devoted admirers, Impresario Monath fixed her with a steely stare. "Mme. Lehmann," said she coldly, "you are not alone on the stage. Franz Schubert is with...
...Sarnoff), got her first break as a finalist in last year's Metropolitan Opera auditions of the air. As Rosalinda, she showed that she is ready for bigger things than operetta. The other, blue-eyed Philadelphia-born Virginia MacWatters, a protégé of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann, tossed off her tricky coloratura arias with the ease and precision of a knife thrower, set critics to speculating on her rosy future...