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FROM THE DARK TOWER (245 pp.)-Ernst Pawel-Mocm/V/on...
...director of Munich's Alte Pinakothek, Dr. Ernst Buchner, was ready for World War II the day it came. Years before, he had sought out and established Alpine hideaways for his masterpieces. When war was declared on Sept. 3, 1939, Buchner closed the doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings...
Bouncing about among the opening-day crowd was foresighted Ernst Buchner, now 55, who had led the fight to rebuild the museum, and is once again its director. Said he. with just a touch of a lump in his throat: "A mile stone in the history...
...film's hero, General Harras (Curt Jürgens), is admittedly modeled after the late Ernst Udet, the German ace of World War I who was a Luftwaffe general in World War II. Harras hates the Nazis, but not as much as he loves his air force, and he knows that if he gives up the one he will have to give up the other. So he goes along, year after year, swallowing his disgust ("After each sitting [i.e., conference] I feel like pulling the chain") and guzzling champagne-the picture of a man too weak...
...singing The Song of the Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek's one-act opera. The Bell Tower, was premiered at the University of Illinois' Festival of Contemporary Arts, proved to be a stark, tight, declamatory work with a plot revolving about the dark deeds of a diabolical bell caster, Banna-donna. The score by Vienna-born Composer Krenek...