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Betz knew, like myself, many things that to-day are neither taught nor learned. The whole secret of both consists in the proper raising and lowering of the soft palate, and the pillars of the fauces connected with it.
Corey and Mrs. Betz. The next afternoon the limousine was not busy and she borrowed it, with the handsome Greek chauffeur. She gave him an address not far from the university. He complained, "Pardon me, miss, but I think you have the wrong number. That block is a low quarter." "Probably! But that's the right number!"
Somehow, London social distinctions seem ludicrous in American cities that twenty years ago didn't have much but board sidewalks and saloons. I don't care whether it's Seattle or Minneapolis or Omaha or Denver, I refuse to worry about the Duchess of Corey and the Baroness Betz and all the other wonderful imitations of gilt.
"Yes," fluttered Claire, trying to be cordial. Mrs. Corey and Mrs. Betz looked at each other in a motionless wink, and Mrs. Corey prodded: "From New York?" "No. Brooklyn." Claire tried not to make it too short. "Oh." The tacit wink was repeated. Mrs. Corey said brightly much too brightly "I was born in New York. I wonder if you know the Dudenants?" Now Claire knew the Dudenants.
Long trenches full of dead told where the eddy of battle had been fierce and the casualties numerous; scattered mounds of fresh earth where they were light; and, sometimes, when the burying was unfinished well, one draws the curtain over scenes like that in the woods at Betz, where Frenchmen died knowing that Paris was saved and Germans died knowing that they had failed to take Paris.
His new villa at Bayreuth he called "Wahnfried," setting over the door a fresco of mythological figures, symbolising music and tragedy; in whom are portrayed Cosima Wagner, his final ideal, and Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient, who had been his first inspiration, and also figures of Wotan and Siegfried; the former being the portrait of Franz Betz, the singer of the rôle, and the latter being the child Siegfried Wagner.
"Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," a comic opera in three acts, words by the composer, was first produced at Munich, June 21, 1868, under the direction of Hans von Bülow, with the following cast: HANS SACHS Herr BETZ. WALTER Herr NACHBAUER. BECKMESSER Herr HÖLZEL. DAVID Herr SCHLOSSER. EVA Mlle. MALLINGER. MAGDALENA Mme.
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