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...fault the performers. Tradition has it that all of the performers should lead exemplary lives. With the present cast, including Christ and Judas, this is notably not the case: they were members of the Nazi Party. The play's longtime director, 70-year-old Woodcarver George Johann Lang, offers an explanation: "I was a Nazi, and I was jailed for it for two years after the war. I hoped that the Nazis would bring order into the political and moral chaos that was Germany. Besides, one of the reasons I did the Passion play in 1934 under Hitler...
...your reviewer: Lang may his lum reek...
...Henry Ford II was putting on a high-kicking jitterbug exhibition with his wife. At last Anne Ford said: "Henry, I think it's about time." Meyer Davis' boys blasted out When the Saints Go Marching In (but young Edsel refused to dance), Auld Lang Syne and Goodnight, Ladies. Charlotte and some friends drove off to the Ford place for a sunrise breakfast, and her father, whose other Daughter Anne will make her debut next year, declared jovially: "It's a good thing I don't have five daughters. I'd go broke." Then...
...warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro...
...public responded to the production with cheers, promptly bought out the next scheduled performance. Would General Manager Rudolf Bing boot out Ritchard and restyle the work, as the Herald Tribune's scholarly Paul Lang suggested? By no means. If the Countess did not emerge as a great lady, said Bing, perhaps it was because "we don't even know who her parents were." As for the offending clothesline, he added, "I've had washing hanging in my own room...