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Real estate developer Francesco Morawetz, 75, is not the first entrepreneur to open a club and residence for luxury vacationers. But he's the first to do it in as grand a place as Palazzo Trevisan-Cappello off St. Mark's Square in Venice. And he may be the first to do it with as much respect for the art and architecture that came before...
...Italian-born Morawetz knew he wanted his private club to be in Venice, where select members who care for the city could enjoy a well-managed part-time home. "But it couldn't be just a luxury club," he says. It had to be quintessential Venice. When he saw the abandoned palazzo (better known as Palazzo Pauly, since it was the headquarters of the Pauly Glassworks for more than a century), it was a revelation. Morawetz acquired the property and, rather than selling the valuable artistic-glass collection that came with it, decided to give Venice a new Museum...
...Europe of the 1920s, that generational dissent was mostly expressed either in the arts (Jean Cocteau, Fritz Lang, Aldous Huxley) or in outright decadence (at the haunts of London's good-time toffs, say, or at just about any club in Berlin). But caught up in a renewed spiral to war, youths, many of them jobless, were soon being courted by political groups on the left and right. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the Wandervogel, a popular, free-spirited, back-to-nature youth movement whose nonpolitical ideals had survived World War I, found itself hijacked...
...unofficial rule of stage and screen: If you need an actor to tap-dance, hire Henry LeTang, fast. Over six decades, the soft-spoken gentle giant of tap ran a world-renowned New York City studio. Among his credits: choreographing films (The Cotton Club, Tap) and Broadway musicals (Sophisticated Ladies, Eubie!, Black and Blue--the last of which won him a Tony). He mentored some of tap's brightest stars, including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen...
...Anniston Star first reported Thursday on Fowler's 1968 firing for striking his superior officer, T.B. Barden, and the 1966 fatal shooting of Nathan Johnson Jr. in Alabaster, which Fowler told the newspaper occurred when an intoxicated Johnson grabbed his billy club and began hitting...