New Brunnhilde

When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Bruennhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling.

Newsmen who queried the Bruennhilde on her swimming achievements found her English uncertain. She claims to have swum the Danube seven miles through Vienna, says that since 1919 she has been "the backside champion of Austria."

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