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...Corporal Fritz Keuntje, a onetime auto mechanic of 33, with the face and stooped back of an old man, had been captured in Czechoslovakia and shipped to a Soviet camp. In 1949, a Russian officer and woman interpreter came to question him: "They asked me whether I had ever passed through a certain village and whether I had been ordered to burn or loot. I said no. They put me into a cell with . . . just room to stand and said, 'If you don't confess, we will leave you here until your legs fall...
...Strong Are Lonely (adapted by Eva Le Gallienne from Fritz Hochwalder's play), dealing far too statuesquely with an impressive theme, closed at week's end. The play told of the difficulties encountered by 18th century Jesuits who created a kind of Utopia in Paraguay. Spain, whose sovereignty they menaced, the Jesuits could defy; but when their own superiors (fearful of what might happen to the order as a whole) commanded them to submit, they faced a bitter ordeal...
Practical Payment. It was Merola's personal taste and his astute judgment of his audiences that brought to the San Francisco stage such rarities as Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz, Vittadini's Anima Allegra and Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. It was also his doing that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much...
Conductor Fritz Reiner, arriving in Manhattan on his way to take over the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, complained that he had found no peace in Italy. Automobiles and motorcycles roaring about with open exhausts, he said, have made Italy "the noisiest country in the world-much worse than New York or Chicago...
...FRITZ STEIN...