Word: bavaria
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...full splendor of Northern Renaissance because German and Flemish art has been far less widely dispersed than the Italian. Its major museum collections lie off the standard London-Paris-Rome tourist track. One of the best is at Munich, built up over centuries by the dukes and princes of Bavaria and now sheltered in the austerely classical Alte Pinakothek. The museum itself was completed by King Ludwig I in 1836. Allied bombs destroyed it in 1944, but the collection had been safely stored away in scattered castles and an Austrian salt mine. Rebuilt almost exactly as before, the museum...
...think, 'Here is our audience, right down here.' " Born Gretl Maerkl in Bavaria, Singer Belleri was signed for the Met in the summer of 1910, while she was still a Munich schoolgirl. When she reported for duty that fall, she was, at 16, the youngest chorus member in Met history, made her debut in the 1910 season in Aïda, with Caruso. In those days, the chorus was bigger - 120 members - and the newest arrival was paid $24 a week, plus $2 for solos. In the present unionized chorus, Belleri earns around $155 a week...
...studios, she was already an unbeatable combination of the seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only a handful of jewelry to keep her going...
...little town in Bavaria last week, one of the biggest casting jobs of the 1960 season was under way. Most of the hopeful male actors were already wearing their makeup-full beards. Every candidate knew what was expected of him because the play was a revival: the 34th run since 1634 of the enactment of Christ's Passion at Oberammergau...
...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...