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Son of the founder of Funk & Wagnails, publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedias, Funk joined the family firm after graduating from Princeton, where he was class poet and began absorbing all the world's words. He became company president in 1925, later started his own publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc...
On its first American tour, in 1923, the company performed four plays, including Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters. It returned with those two dramas, an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, and a new "realistic Soviet" play, Kremlin Chimes, all of which were warmly praised...
"And don't forget Robin," chimes in young Dick Grayson, as he vaults into the back seat of Wayne's open roadster.
In Spain today, all the world's a sound stage. The Outlaw of the Red River, with George Montgomery, is now shooting on the banks of the Tagus River. Yacht to Jamaica never left Barcelona. Nor did Horst Buchholz as The Man from Istanbul. Orson Welles's epic...
RICHARD STRAUSS: SYMPHONIA DOMESTICA (Columbia). Strauss once declared that he found himself as interesting as Napoleon and equally worthy to be the subject of a symphony. He generously included his wife and baby in the scenario when he wrote this tone poem about a day at home. The baby is...