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...Heckscher. "The most beautiful theater," exclaimed Hollywood Producer Otto Preminger. "Marvelous and effective," said Playwright Alan Jay Lerner. So, last week, with a popping of flashbulbs and champagne corks, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, latest unit to join Manhattan's Lincoln Center, swung into orbit with its opening production, Georg Buechner's 130-year-old Danton's Death...
Danton's Death, by Georg Buechner. Physically, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Lincoln Center Repertory's new home, is resplendent (see SHOW BUSINESS). Financially, this theater company is the richest in the U.S. Dramatically, it is bankrupt. Under its new directors, Herbert Blau and Jules Irving, Lincoln Center begins its third season by patting together another of a seemingly endless series of dramatic mudpies...
...still U.S. imports including the third place Addams Family. Charles de Gaulle's "francization" campaign has rolled back U.S. penetration to less than 10% of viewing time. But the Swiss, characteristically more pragmatic, just watch the profit sheet and keep on buying American. Explains Procurement Chief Georg Ambuehl: "A bad European show can be even worse than a bad U.S. program -which is saying something...
Died. Just Lunning, 55, president since 1952 of Georg Jensen, Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian silver, ceramics and furnishings founded by his father in 1923, a Harvard-educated lawyer from Odense, Denmark, who so successfully promoted the clean and simplified lines of modern Scandinavian design that they have found their way into almost every U.S. home, increasing his store's sales by 55%; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
System Strangled. A growing teacher shortage threatens to strangle the entire system. World War II took away many of the young men who would normally have turned to the classrooms. When teachers now in their 50s and 60s begin to retire a decade from now, concludes Philosopher Georg Picht, West Germany will have to persuade 90% of its university graduates to become teachers to fill...