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...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...
...repetition--of words, of thoughts, of dramatic situations. In her play, "Yes Is For a Very Young Man," the obvious use of this technique is in the repeating of single words; in the first act, "yes" is exhausted of all its symbolic meaning in an excellent dialogue between Ferdinand, a young, confused French boy and Constance, a characterization of Gertrude Stein herself. There is a more subtle repetition, however, in the fact that each of the three main French characters have a sequence of interviews with Constance. Constance is the symbol of what she was named for, of fixed repetition...
...plot progression is a series of reflections in a three-faced mirror. Through the mirror--Constance--are presented the thoughts and experiences of Henri, a French soldier, his wife Denise and brother, Ferdinand, during the period of the French Resistance. The plot is in sharp focus all the way. But if the greater part of the story is concentrated, the climax is too diffuse. Instead of having a three-way plot solution in a single unified scene with Constance, the portrayal of each character reaches a separate culmination in a scene alone with her. The audience is left to wonder...
...Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able to go on as Brünnhilde. The Met's other Brünnhilde, Astrid Varnay, was not available. Finally, at 4 p.m., someone recalled that the wife of new Viennese Baritone Ferdinand Frantz, who was scheduled to sing Wotan that night, had sung Brünnhilde in Vienna and Munich. Musical Director Max Rudolf picked up the phone and called Madame Frantz (stage name: Helena Braun...
Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime...