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...Germany's pre-World War II Presidents, Friedrich Ebert and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, died in Office. Hitler, who did not call himself President, but was, perished in his Berlin bunker...
German Director Carl Ebert, general manager of West Berlin's Municipal Opera, superbly handled his cast and particularly the Met's often heavy-footed chorus, achieved some stunning, stylized patterns reminiscent of Bayreuth. Highly effective were the glowingly expressionistic sets by German Designer Caspar Neher, but his costumes were merely foolish: mauve, mustard, rose and lavender, suitable for a Todd A-O musical version of the Wars of the Roses. If Designer Neher tried to follow the romantic music by being deliberately unrealistic, he spoiled his effect with just enough realistic touches, as when platoons of soldiers...
...this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch to the hilt. Higgins' colleague, Pickering, was adroitly played by Robert Blackburn...
Laurinda Barrett makes an admirable Portia, in both the latter's personae; and Olive Dunbar is a model Nerissa. Joyce Ebert's Jessica is attractive but vocally uneven...
...sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew to West Berlin to audition for brilliant Opera Director Carl Ebert (TIME, Jan. 24, 1955), was hired to sing the title role in his new production of Carmen...