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While Richard von Weizsacker was on the front, drafted at the age of 18, his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, was working in the foreign ministry, first as a chief diplomat, and later as an ambassador to the Vatican. His brother, Karl Fredrich, was a prominent physicist, who was at work for the Nazi regime in attempting to develop an atom bomb...
Powell: In a phrase made famous by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels: "No ruling class ever voluntarily gives up state power." I would be astonished if the ruling class in the USSR, especially under new leadership, volunteers...
Without half its complexity of plot, Diva would be captivating. The photography is stunning, particularly during a climatic sequence in an abandoned warehouse. The acting is low-key and effective. Fredrich Andre plays the handsome Jules with an appealing and desperate innocence. Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez as the diva, gives the insecure prima donna an amusingly American French accent, an appropriate haughtiness of manner, and a crystalline singing voice. Thuy An Luu and Richard Bohringer (as Alba and her boyfriend) are very good at behaving strangely, which appears to be their primary function...
...hard for me to pinpoint exactly what has gone wrong with this show, because it so often seems headed in the right direction. Carl Fredrich Oberle's sets. which make brilliant use of projections (including a still from D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ), are perfectly conceived, as are Elizabeth Tullis's costumes and Sara Linnie Slocum's lighting. Not to mention Charles Langmuir's assured performance of the hero (an anti-war American who goes off to fight the "war to end all wars") and that swell band gliding through the original Weill orchestrations...
...dance committee has asked the following to act as patremesses: Mrs. Clarence H. Having, Mrs. Seymour K. Harris, Mrs. Edward Ballantine, and Mrs. Carl J. Fredrich...