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...made that era vanished with it. Benito Mussolini, Italy's self-styled Man of Destiny, died ignominiously and was hung by his heels like a slaughtered pig alongside the body of his mistress. Adolf Hitler, Man of 1938, died by his own hand, also with his mistress, in the rubble of Berlin. Or did he die? Dead or alive, it did not much matter; Adolf Hitler, the force, had perished...
...before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther he got out and walked, erect, though mortar shells were bursting all around. More than once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust with Nazi Erwin Rommel-each contestant in a tank. "The two armies could...
...number, Herodiade, sounded almost as though Hindemith meant to atone for his atonalist sins. Explained he: "I am heading toward more simple treatment of harmonies and melodies." Of The Four Temperaments, Hindemith said: "I wrote it for Balanchine, but he never danced it. I don't know why." Die junge Magd, third of Hindemith's four, is a song cycle about a young maiden's life. Says the composer: "I suppose she dies in the end. Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never...
...horrified, which was tinged with self-pity, for this was suicide. ... It was quite clear that he was . . . congratulating himself on having at last, at the end of his muddled and frustrated existence, achieved an act crystal line in its clarity. . . ." That kind of reporting would not die with tomorrow's paper...
Mielziner employs only two assistants, shies away from the mass production possible to a highly sought-after designer. "I could enlarge my office," he once said, "hire 50 men, and become a millionaire, but I'd simply sicken myself with grouse and good port, and die of shame." Compared to most theater emoluments, designers' fees, which must cover designers' expenses, are not imposing. Mielziner's $3,500 for Dream Girl is about tops for a nonmusical; his $5,000 for Carousel, tops for a musical; the $30,000 that Mielziner grosses in a big year, tops...