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Along with her name, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, three-week-old second-born of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, acquired an identity card, a ration book, a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of cod-liver oil, duly presented by officials from the Westminster food office. Next day, Anne had her first outing, a tour around the garden at Clarence House in a black baby carriage, a hand-me-down from her brother, 22-month-old Prince Charles...
...Germany last month, an audience largely of G.I.s in the Rhein-Main Air Base gymnasium cheered every number to the rafters. Berlin audiences, seeing their first American ballet since the war, bravoed Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free (although the critics chewed their whiskers, muttered about "acrobatic distortion"). At the Edinburgh Festival a fortnight ago, it seemed to Directress Lucia Chase (TIME, May 8) that "everybody liked everything"; Edinburgh's Lord Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London...
Chin Tufts & Bravos. Last week, after concerts by the U.S.'s flamboyant Leonard Bernstein (conducting from the piano), the redoubtable Sir Thomas Beecham and France's crack Loewenguth String Quartet, one performance stood out as loftily as old Edinburgh Castle itself. In King's Theatre, when the curtain went down on the Glyndebourne Opera Company's new and magnificent production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the audience leaped to their feet, mixed their applause with wave after wave of bravos...
...Edinburgh oldtimers, Glyndebourne's production of Ariadne, a complex opera-within-a-play, was the four-year-old festival's most ambitious single project yet. Some of the credit went to chin-tufted Sir Thomas Beecham in the pit. But most of it was due to a big, swarthy, white-maned man named Carl Ebert, who has directed the famed Glyndebourne, and all of its festival productions, since Glyndebourne's start...
When the festival is over, Ebert will board ship for the U.S. Since 1948, he has spent his winters teaching opera at the University of Southern California. He has already brought one of his American students to help him out of Glyndebourne and Edinburgh. Bob Herman, 25, son of onetime Brooklyn Daffy Dodger Babe Herman, is now his year-round assistant producer. Says Ebert: "Opera has a long way to go in America . . . There is too much accent on voices, not enough on stage presence. Nobody spends nearly nough time rehearsing...