Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago music lovers got a treat last week: the first U.S. performance of Symphony No. 7 by Darius Milhaud (pronounced me-lo). Performed with clarity and spirit by Conductor Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, it turned out to be one of Milhaud's most appealing works...
Since Thieves' Carnival is at least partly fantasy, it requires a particularly light touch in its staging. Director Fritz Kracht, evidently cognizant of this has given the production a great deal of grace and movement. Most of the cast responds to his direction with capable performances, although one or two of them seem a little uncertain of their lines. But there is nothing unsure about the acting of Ray Duffy, who plays the leader of the thieves. He makes an altogether likeable yegg. Herb Adams, the second member of the trio, tends to overplay his part of a professional seducer...
...West's newest ally, West Germany, was making a most disagreeable impression on its friends last week. Chiefly responsible was crabbed, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer. Schäffer was flatly unwilling to pay what Germany's NATO partners consider a fair share of Western defense...
...Quarreler. But 67-year-old Fritz Schäffer is used to irritating allies. A prewar lawyer and leading politician in Bavaria, he was picked by General George Patton as the first postwar Minister-President of Bavaria. Soon Schäffer was quarreling with the U.S. occupation authorities because he insisted on hiring ex-Nazis to staff his office. He needed men of ability, he argued, and the question of their Naziism was irrelevant. Patton agreed, but General Eisenhower did not. Schäffer went on hiring Nazis anyway, was discovered, and in the ensuing uproar,* Eisenhower ordered...
...Fritz Winter left his job as a miner in a Westphalian coal shaft when he won a scholarship at the Bauhaus. When the Nazis clamped down, Winter scraped together enough money to buy a hillside farmhouse in Bavaria. As a front, he set up shop as a maker of wooden knickknacks. His real work he did at night, painting abstractions that reflected the grimness of the times. Says Winter of one typical painting, which shows four heavy, black hammer forms relentlessly assaulting a doomed crystalline structure: "I was a seismograph; I was under a heavy weight in those years...