Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — Realism in Berlin. [ARTICLE]

Realism in Berlin.

On Wednesday night a crowd of Pittsburg men who nad been to the May festival were talking about the performance. A gentleman of German birth, who had been especially valiant in defense of Wagner and German art and artists, got into a rather heated controversy with a Pittsburger over the merits of the rendering of Saint-Saens’ “The Deluge” that evening. “You must confess,” said the Pittsburger, “that the effect of the flood was most realistically produced to-night. ” “Do you call that realism?” contemptuously answered the German. “Why, in Berlin, when ‘The Deluge’ was given, the audience were up to their necks in water for tnree hours!”