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...worked in Berlin for two years when the man who was to give his career its most important and lasting twist walked in the agency door. Famed (in Germany) Actor-Director Carl Ebert-(TIME, Sept. 4) had just been appointed artistic director of the Darmstadt State Theater. Among other things, he wanted a bright young man for his assistant. Rudi Bing told him brightly: "I know an excellent man. Take...
...engaging artists, scheduling rehearsals, programming, and overseeing ticket sales. He also met two of the men who are now his right and left hands at the Met: Artistic Administrator Max Rudolf, 48, and General Assistant John Gutman, 48, who in the old days used to drop into the Darmstadt theater as music critic for the Berlin Börsen-Courier. Rudolf, then a conductor, recalls Bing and wife Nina as "a handsome couple," Bing himself as "a man I liked to talk to." Says another German critic who knew him well at Darmstadt: "He was clearly destined to have...
...Turn. Bing's future turned dark before it brightened much. After two years in Darmstadt, he went back to Ber lin as artistic administrator of the Municipal Theater. Ebert arrived the next year. The following year, 1933, all hands were summarily dismissed by the Nazis. Bing went home to Vienna, then to a tiny theater near Prague, where he helped produce "absurd" things, such as Figaro in modern dress...
Married. Princess Cecilia of Germany, 31, daughter of German ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Clyde Harris, 31, Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment...
...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...