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...notable victim of the decree was Silvia Gingold, 29, a public school teacher in Hesse, who was denied civil servant status a year ago because she was a Communist Party member. Germans were outraged when Hesse authorities refused to take into account Silvia's special circumstances: her Jewish parents had fled from Nazi Germany into France, where they joined the Communist-led Resistance...
...Gingold ruling was eventually declared unlawful by the courts, but the case continued to attract attention. Outside the Federal Republic, there were accusations of neofascism and worries about a new generation of "ugly Germans." In Paris, Sorbonne Political Scientist Alfred Grosser, a moderate leftist, deplored West Germany's "atmosphere of intolerance, surveillance, snooping and denunciation." A Swedish television report blasted the "socalled radicals' decree and its implications." French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand even set up a Committee for the Defense of Civic and Professional Rights in West Germany...
People were doing their own thing last week at the San Francisco Opera. First, Mayor Joseph Alioto chose to publicize his crusade to make San Franciscans use public transport by arriving for a performance of The Daughter of the Regiment on a bus. Then oldtime Upstager Hermione Gingold, 77, made her operatic debut in the tiny role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp and turned what should have been a brief appearance into a runaway slapstick turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after...
...years ago, 60 actors, including Hal Holbrook, Julie Harris and Joan Hackett petitioned the city for better protection of the grubby Great White Way. It was claimed that actors could not step outside the greenroom without getting goosed or mugged. Today, says A Little Night Music's Hermione Gingold, "There are far less evil-looking people around." Two days later, an uptown precinct tried to persuade the visiting Moiseyev troupe of folk dancers that Central Park was safe. Not a bicycle thief was in sight when Patrolman Murray Trelford and eight of his colleagues challenged the 30 Russians...
Producer-Director Hal Prince, who demands mere perfection from a cast, gets very nearly that here. He has curbed Gingold's hammy excesses, lit up the sexy enchantress in Johns, and released in Cariou a presence, as well as a voice, that marks him for the top of the U.S. musical stage. Ardent admirers of Prince's Company and Follies may be startled and a trifle dismayed that he has devoted his formidable skill and inventive energy to what is basically a bittersweet operetta. But then, the only predictable thing about Hal Prince is that whatever he does...