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...stage of Milan's La Scala one evening last week, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, mused about the futility of wealth and power. The aria, Oh! de' verd'anni miei, got hearty applause. After the curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...
...Munich court ended a three-year legal squabble over some grubby last effects of the late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy...
...Bauhaus, Gropius gathered a brilliant group of teachers and students to apply his ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
...most elegant specialty shop in the world." Last week New York's W'hitneys, Sloans, Rockefellers and 850 other guests turned out to dine & dance at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza at a $50-a-plate party (the proceeds went to cancer research) to celebrate the golden anni-ersary of the store...
Both the Virgin and Mary Magdalene will undoubtedly have to be replaced. Tradition demands that these two important roles be played by unmarried women under 35. Having played the Virgin twice, Anni Rutz (who once studied at Florida's Rollins College) is now a spinsterly 37; Clara (Mary Magdalene) Mayr has taken a husband...