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...hands of the designers. These days no one really expects Fricka to ride on in a chariot drawn by rams, but why sacrifice the whole idea of the Valkyries as warriors? Shields and spears are banished from this Valhalla (directed by Wolfgang Weber and designed by Giinther Schneider-Siemssen). Maybe the old helmets were corny, but they were no worse than the dated bouffant coiffes the maidens now wear, not to speak of the evening gowns, complete with sequins and bugle beads. The nine mighty young immortals lack only evening purses to pass for the gaudier members of the audience...
...latest to try. Director August Everding and Designer Giinther Schneider-Siemssen, are no exception. Their new Tristan und Isolde, which opened at the Met last week, undoubtedly will provoke arguments for as long as the production runs. To some, it may be a bold realization of the poetry in Wagner's libretto. To others, it will seem more like the further adventures of Mary Poppins, German style...
...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went up in smoke after Von Hassel failed to consult him before ruling-of all things-that labor union organizers could enter military camps to recruit career enlisted men and officers for their ranks. The third resignation came from Major General Giinther Pape, the commander of West Germany's Ruhr-encompassing Third Defense District, who is a close friend of Trettner...
...industrial plutocracy whose yellow Mercedeses and Chris-Craft cruisers have largely replaced the Iron Cross and the dueling scar as status symbols. The new upper crust is personified by such tycoons as Rudolf August Oetker, who parlayed a baking powder business into a 100-company empire; Hans Giinther Sohl, who as boss of Thyssen since war's end has turned a family ironworks into West Germany's biggest steelmaker; and Munich's Rudolf Miinemann, one of the nation's biggest and boldest financiers. Yet, for all its wealth, says Sociologist Dahrendorf, the Geldaristokratie "is searching above...
Residenztheater," said Rococo Theater Expert Dr. Giinther Schone, director of Munich's Theater Museum. "I am afraid that the new gold leaf will shine too brightly and the walls will lack dust, the patina of age." But after two years of detailed restoration, the interior of Munich's rococo Residenztheater last week looked very much like the original-right down to the patina...