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...poets have been more celebrated in song and story than Hans Sachs the shoemaker Meistersinger of Nuremberg. Though his fame rests principally on a comparatively small number of his inimitably sweet songs, he was nevertheless an extraordinarily fertile poet. According to his own account he had, ten years before his death, composed 4275 Meisterlieder, 1700 tales and fables in verse, and 203 dramas, surely a stupendous production in any case...
...production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there...
...bacon am sweet...
First Love.* The hero breathes "My Darling," the heroine, "My Love." They kiss, cuddle, coo, cuddle, kiss. . . . When the principles are not at it, the other characters in the play are telling one another how sweet it is. The audience, surfeited, looks on skeptically, for the kiss-cuddle-coo is supposed to have been continuous for three years, and in Paris. There is a father (Bruce McRae) who has ordered the hero-son out of the house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that...
...bleated a placard appearing broadcast through New York, Long Island, New Jersey. Other newspapers were not laggard. Sweet Dorothy Dix, writing for the New York Evening Post, and syndicated throughout the U. S., described Charlotte Mills, daughter of the dead singer, as "the quintessence of this hard-boiled age, when girls have no old-fashioned reverence for a mother's purity, but, on the contrary, condone mother's frailty and help her out in her little 'affairs...