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...with wooden heads made from stock male & female models: only a wig and a beard differentiate Mephistopheles from the clown in Pagliacci. The puppets are worked not by strings from above but by rods from below stage. There a crew of five (headed by Mr. Wolff's plump, Czech-born mother), seated on rolling stools, scuttle about like water bugs. In the triumphal scene in Aïda they have 75 puppets to handle. Mrs. Wolff designed the costumes, sometimes copying the Met's. Settings, too, are modeled after the Met's, although they have...
...QUARTET No. 6 IN F MAJOR (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Czech-born Dvořák's U. S.-folk-music-inspired quartet well played by one of today's ranking chamber music ensembles...
...motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official took pencil & paper, certified that Frank Bartell, 33, Czech-born six-day racer, had covered a measured mile at 80.5 m. p. h. Pleased at beating the world's record of 76 m. p. h. set by Canada's big, red-headed William ("Torchy") Peden, Czech Bartell waggled his Vandyke, swore he would make 100 the next time...