Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While East Berlin's Turandot emphasized the oriental barbarity of the libretto, La Scala's version brought out its fairytale quality and its atmosphere of Eastern mystery. The sets were high and airy, often lighted with foggy uncertainty to give the illusion of immensely stretching space. The cast moved with the highly stylized, mincing grace of the traditional Chinese theater. The opera's few moments of pure horror, as when the executioner carries in the head of the Prince of Persia in Act I, were so skillfully blended into the fabric of stage movement that they were...
...Felsenstein, both born in Vienna, began their careers in the world of opera. Felsenstein started out to be an actor, drifted into opera directing in the 1920s. He took over the Komische Oper in 1947, speedily built it into the operatic showcase of a city that also boasts the East Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort) as from the Eastern sector...
Centered in Bombay, Indian moviemaking is a montage of pomp, profit and speculation. The size of the market is fantastic : 730 million annual Indian moviegoers, plus Southeast Asia, the Middle East and many countries behind the Iron Curtain. But Bombay also has trouble: a severe star shortage. For all of Bombay's 20 studios, which make some 300 pictures yearly (in 19 Indian languages), there are only twelve top stars. They work in as many as 15 movies simultaneously, dashing from studio to studio in limousines, and often a hero and heroine do their parts in so many scattered...
...recognition to the Communist regime, stipulated that U.S. clergymen be permitted to live in Moscow to minister to the spiritual needs of Americans there. Four priests served in this treaty-made capacity, all of them Assumptionist fathers, a missionary group with a special concern for the churches of the East. In 1955, when the U.S. State Department refused to extend the 60-day visa of the Moscow Patriarchate's Archbishop Boris to permit him to serve as Exarch for North and South America, the Communists retaliated by expelling Assumptionist Father Georges Bissonnette and refusing to grant a visa...
...press of Communist East Germany was cheering what it considered a victory last week. Berlin's Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius, gloated a Neues Deutschland editorial, "has blown the retreat" on the issue of permitting Protestant boys and girls to participate in the secular "Youth Dedications" with which the Communists have been trying for the past four years to supplant church confirmations...