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...recalls Weill's widow, Singer Lotte Lenya, were fascinated by the America they knew "from books, movies, popular songs, headlines-the America of the garish Twenties, with its Capones, Texas Guinans, Aimee Semple MacPhersons, Ponzis, and the Murderess Ruth Snyder." The mythical city of Mahagonny (pronounced mah-hah-ge-nee) was a symbol of that imaginary America, and the city's reason for being was summed up in the name of its principal hotel: the Here-You-May-Do-Anything Inn. The opera's songs marked a turning point for Composer Weill-away from atonality toward...
...SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE ORIENTAL CHURCH. Founded in 1862, it supervises the liturgical practices and canon law of 11 million Catholics who belong to five major Eastern Rites, worship in more than ten different languages, including English (used by Ukrainian Byzantines in Pittsburgh) and Ge'ez (used by 30,000 Catholics of the Ethiopic rite). The congregation's work is supervised by its prosecretary, newly created Gabriel Acacio Cardinal Coussa, 64, a bearded Melkite (Syrian Catholic...
...large, you will find there the best for less. Let us instance forth the green vales of Needham; at that town's Paramount Theatre Jacque Tati's Mon Oncle is paired, in a manner of speaking, with the great School for Scoundrels. Again: Dorchester's Adams Theatre (GE 6-2080) has two fine dramas on tap, Picnicand Psycho, neither of which is easily forgotten, if for widely differing reasons. Finally, you may still catch Day at the Races and Meet Me in St. Louis by hustling over to the Circle at Cleveland Circle...
Westinghouse and General Electric sponsor a television spectacular on union featherbedding in Newburgh, New York. "Unions have lost touch with morality," Ralph Cordiner, president of GE, explains, "and a free handout is not the American way of being poor. Only through corporation can America reach its purpose." ...President De Gaulle personally leads a march from Paris to the Spanish border protesting the resumption of plastic bomb tests...
...magazine International Teamster announces a big push for membership in DRIVE (a lobbying subsidiary of the union), offers an aromatic inducement. New members will receive free "a handsome, goldplated, perfume-filled spray atomizer, with choice of one or two highly desired perfumes, comparable to Chanel or Arpège...