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...hour of Venus and the sailor...
...cast: fat Lauritz Melchior sang the title rôle; Soprano Maria Muller of the Metropolitan Opera was an able Elizabeth, but (said a U. S. correspondent) "her impersonation wanted in true virginal tenderness and womanliness." The Venusberg scene did not represent "frenzied eroticism" but "revue calisthenics." Venus (Contralto Anni Helm) was "tender, but in a maternal way." Nevertheless the audience was enthusiastic, applauded (mostly for Toscanini) a full ten minutes...
After the return of the Bourbons in 1814 Painter David, deemed a regicide, was exiled. He retired to Brussels, where, renewing his interest in antiquity, he painted Amor Quitting Psyche, Mars Disarmed by Venus, rejected an offer to be made Minister of Fine Arts in Berlin and died...
...Author was crippled by the War; brims with Roman Catholic sweetness & light. He works at accounting, writes novels in his spare time, hopes soon to have more spare time. Other books: This Sorry Scheme, The Stooping Venus, The Little Friend...
Tannhäuser, recorded at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, conducted by Karl Elmendorff (Columbia, $36)?The production to which the world's music wisest flocked last summer, faithfully given as Arturo Toscanini prepared it. More thrilling than any recent flesh & blood performance in the U. S. is the "Venus" of Contralto Ruth Jost-Arden, the ''Wolfram" of Baritone Herbert Janssen. flawlessly reproduced...