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...Walküre Brünnhilde is a high-spirited amazon, a goddess sired and loved by Wotan who punishes her by making her mortal and banishing her to a rock surrounded by fire. In Siegfried the perfect hero penetrates the flames and Brünnhilde is a woman radiantly in love. In Götterdämmerung the emotional range is so extended that few singers have been able to compass it successfully. In the first act a great Brünnhilde must be tender, exuberantly happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heroic Female Figure | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...comic opera entitled "The Kingfish Departs from his Baton Rouge Aquarium in an Attempt to Get in the National Swim.' A shark named Farley," continues the narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE OF MIRTH | 3/7/1935 | See Source »

...rich copper lodes from the earth's depths. Agriculture is stagnant, and the mining towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hubbell, Lake Linden, studded with company-built houses, have the melancholy look of semi-depopulation. But the streams near the stamping mills still run red with crushed ore rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mines, Metals, Medals | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cinema | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Whutchamean" . . . "not the most beautiful portion of the United States are the Carolinas"? What portion of the U. S. is more beautiful than our Great Smoky Mountains-Banners Elk, Linville Falls, Chimney Rock, Tryon, Brevard, Hendersonville, Blowing Rock and other mountain retreats; or our famous winter resorts-Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Camden, Aiken, Summerville; or Myrtle Beach, Kitty Hawk; and the beautiful gardens of Charleston, Orangeburg and Wilmington, to which we might add our world-known hunting and fishing grounds-Ocracoke, Lake Matta-muskeet and Morehead City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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