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Rule of Thumb. In Cairo, Egypt, after listening to the complaint of Mrs. Zeinab Hassanein Eddine, 22, that her husband had slapped her, Judge Sheikh Mahmud Mikawi granted a divorce, ruled that although a husband may beat his wife with a cane "no thicker than a finger," he must not strike her on the face, which "reflects the beauty of woman...
...basement, directly below Faust's vocal soul-struggles, Mephistopheles (Basso Nicola Moscona) paces nervously, dressed in evening clothes, redlined Inverness cape, with top hat and cane. Three grips stand ready at the trapdoor platform. Another maestro, with a score on his lap, sits near by. Mephistopheles clears his throat, begins la-la-la softly. The maestro, straining to hear the orchestra, says, "Ready!" and Mephisto steps onto the platform...
...paper streamers upward into sight of the audience. The basement maestro makes an abrupt pronouncement: "Up with him!" The stagehands lift the platform and Mephisto into the air. The audience first sees him sitting on the arm of the chair that screens the trapdoor, nonchalantly swinging his foot and cane. Meanwhile, behind the rear study wall. Marguerite (Soprano Nadine Conner) is climbing a narrow set of stairs to a platform, aided by a stagehand...
...Mephisto flourishes his cane. Behind the scenery, backstage spots begin to glow, lighting Singer Conner; as a result, Faust and the audience see the vision of Marguerite through a scrimmed hole in the middle of Faust's bookcase. Faust, enraptured, signs away his soul to the Devil, drinks the potion to restore his youth. While Mephisto struts about flashing his cape to distract the audience, Faust rips off his old-man disguise and springs forward as a young...
...Intentions. At 16, Adolf carried an elegant, ivory-tipped, ebony cane, and "put his trousers carefully under the mattress so that the next morning he could rejoice in a faultless crease." He had a strange attraction for women, who forever gave him encouraging glances or even sent inviting notes, but he was an unbending prude. One night he dragged the embarrassed Kubizek off to inspect Vienna's red-light district, and later lectured for hours on the evils of prostitution. Not much better than prostitution, in his opinion, was the cosmopolitanism of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Even then...