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...Citizen Marcel Prawy, had already successfully staged Kiss Me, Kate in Vienna (TIME, March 5, 1956). His announcement that he was bringing Annie Oakley and the Wild West to the Danube shore outraged critics. They rushed fiercely to defend the virtue of their Merry Widows, the dignity of their Countess Maritzas and the artistic solvency of their Gypsy Barons. American musicals, said critics, were "pornographic" and not fit for "Kulturstaaten." Furthermore, the government-subsidized Volksoper should be playing native Austrian composers. (Annie's defenders pointed out that native operetta composers have not written a note worth hearing for decades...
...morning of the last day of January in 1889 Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was found shot dead in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. Beside him, and apparently the second member of a suicide pact, lay the body of the young Countess Maria Vetsera. Their deaths were the culmination of a hopeless love affair--hopeless because Rudolph had been married long before he ever met Maria. Such a story is the stuff of which fairy tales, or even tragedy, is made, but it certainly did not provide the material for a successful...
...other key appointment was the promotion of Peter Thorneycroft, 47, to Macmillan's old job as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thorneycroft comes from a family of Staffordshire ironmasters which made its fortune in the Industrial Revolution. His second wife is an Italian countess who was once fashion editor of the British Vogue. As President of the Board of Trade, Thorneycroft earned a reputation for courage and clarity, for economic liberalism and opposition to monopolies. He, like Macmillan, is eager for closer economic ties to Europe...
...Happy Shepherd through the "Crazy Jane" poems. Later came selections from James Stephens, Padraic Colum, Brian Merriman, Padraic Pearse, the prolific Anonymous, and others. With the able assistance of Colgate Salsbury '57 (on temporary loan from Elsinore), she also included the love scene from Yeats' early Faustian drama, The Countess Cathleen...
Miss McKenna will read a scene from W.B. Yeats' play "The Countess Kathleen." She will also present shorter poems of Yeats, Padraic Colum, and James Stephens, as well as some anonymous Irish ballads. The program is sponsored by the Poets' Theatre...