Word: graf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scissors & Sets. Conductor Fritz Stie-dry and Stage Director Herbert Graf took scissors to the libretto and score, and one whole scene and parts of another (totaling about half an hour of music) finally rested on the cutting-room floor. But the essential story remained. Don Alvaro, poor fellow, still accidentally kills his sweetheart's father, Leonora still takes refuge in a monastery, and "the force of destiny" still brings Don Alvaro, Leonora and her avenging brother together for a bloody but musically magnificent finale...
...theology of antialcoholism. "Drunkenness," cried Belgian All-Dry Abbe Maas in summation, "is a mortal sin." Then the medicine men got down to figures. In Sweden, said Gunnar Nelker, ten times as many alcoholics get divorces as nonalcoholics. The industrial accident rate in Germany, rumbled Professor Otto Graf, is three times as high among heavy drinkers as it is among abstainers. But it was the French Half-Wrets who proved to be the experts on alcoholism. "Instead of returning to his squalid home," said Professor Charles Foulen, "the French worker lingers in the cafe in an atmosphere of artificial...
...Pretty Debutante. Veteran Stage Director Herbert Graf did his part by freshening up Rigoletto's stage business. Verdi's music did the rest. Brilliantly paced by Conductor Alberto Erede, and magnificently sung and acted by a pair of Americans who are fast becoming one of the finest teams in Met history, Leonard Warren (Rigoletto) and Richard Tucker (the Duke), Rigoletto had even Olin
...ground floor" (and earn some added income), the Met is creating a separate television department (under veteran Stage Director Herbert Graf). Operas for TV will be produced in a studio, rather than in the unsuitable Met, with "new staging techniques, maybe some new operas, and maybe some new singers." The Met's TV productions will be sold (Bing hopes) to a commercial sponsor, just like any other TV show...
...hottest syndicate at Mar del Plata this year was 20 strong, and raked in earnings estimated as high as 6,000,000 pesos. It was headed by a onetime Nazi sailor, nicknamed El Alemán, who first came to Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly) El Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito (Johnny), each gang member...