Word: frau
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...Hitler walked through the door today, I would be just as glad and happy to see and have him here as ever." So says sprightly, white-haired Winifred Wagner, English-born daughter-in-law of Operatic Giant Richard Wagner and close friend of Adolf Hitler for 22 years. Frau Wagner, 78, broke a 30-year public silence to talk about herself and Hitler in a five-hour film, Winifred Wagner and the History of Haus Wahnfried, 1914-1975, which premiered in Paris recently. Her basic message: anybody who thinks that Hitler was cruel, malevolent and even megalomaniacal is mistaken about...
...fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call of Victor's madness and is soon trying to reproduce the experiments. He is aided by a shapely but vacant assistant called Inga (Teri Garr) and by the stainless-steel housekeeper Frau Blucher, played by Cloris Leachman, who does a skillful and witty parody on the Judith Anderson role in Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...Third Reich; after a long illness; in Munich. A provincial actress in her youth, she stepped into the international limelight in 1935 by becoming the second Mrs. Goring; Adolf Hitler was best man at the wedding. In 1948, two years after her husband committed suicide in prison, Frau Goring was convicted of being a Nazi and was barred from acting for five years. Unable to stage a comeback, she lived out her days in a small apartment in Munich with her only daughter, Edda...
...Island Dream." Here a young man travels in his dream to a fantasy island, where the women of his past, innocent love live in an idyllic setting. But soon he has to leave, sad and frustrated that he never held onto their love when he could. Again in "To Frau Gertrud" the narrator sadly recounts his happiness with a love now gone. "The Marble Works" is perhaps the most encouraging of these early stories. Here Hesse develops a story of lost love into some better understanding than mere whisperings of sadness and frustration...
...that regularly tours in places as far apart as Alaska and Arizona. But it is in the cavernous War Memorial Opera House of the parent company that Adler has really made a showing. He presented the first major U.S. stagings of such operatic landmarks as Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Les Troyens. He was the first to put such now celebrated Europeans as Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Geraint Evans on the American stage. He has also led in giving major roles to relatively unknown...