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...world's biggest reptile is a major draw for visitors to Kakadu, Australia's largest?and most famous?national park. But there are other, equally compelling reasons to visit the 20,000-sq-km preserve. Declared a World Heritage area for its outstanding cultural and ecological offerings, Kakadu includes one of the finest and most extensive collections of rock art and embraces some spectacular scenery, from a rugged 500-km-long sandstone escarpment to extensive woodlands and wetlands. It is also on Asia's doorstep: its gateway city, Darwin, is closer to Jakarta and Singapore than to the nation...
Tuesday: Took part in a seminar in Helsinki on the possible admission of Russia into the Council of Europe, then stopped by King's Kakadu Club, where he and his entourage unwound with several drinks and a strip show...
...Among the works performed will be Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" Op. 28, arranged for chamber ensemble. The piece is a good introduction to the unusual musical world of Strauss, although I don't know how much of the real flavor actually comes through in a chamber transcription. Beethoven's "Kakadu" Variation for Piano Trio, Yehudi Wyner's Serenade (1958) for seven instruments and Brahms' Quintet for clarinet and strings Op. 115 will also be done. The concert is Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jordan Hall in Boston. Call 266-1492 for info and subscription tickets...
...activities of the Verein have been varied. It has presented the late actor and reader, Max Montor, in a group of readings from German plays, has staged Schuitzler's "Liebelet" and "Dor gruene Kakadu," and Fulda's Jugendfreunde," with the collaboration of the German clubs of Wellesley and Radcliffe...
...German Club of Harvard University under the direction of James M. Hawkes, instructor in German, will present Schnitzler's "Der Gruene Kakadu," at the Fine Arts Theatre this evening. This one-act grotesque, which deals with the dramatic period of the outbreak of the French Revolution, is the second of Schnitzler's plays to be presented by the Turmwaechter, the first, "Liebelei," having been given last year in conjunction with the Wellesley German Club. The play is to be presented in addition to the regular Fine Arts program which includes the German film "Herthas Erwachen...