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When police searched the apartments of the missing women, they found several tools of the spy trade, including camera equipment that could be used to photograph documents and a briefcase with a secret compartment. West German authorities think that a third possible spy, a friend of Richter's named Lorenz Betzing, may have also fled eastward. She once worked for a firm that installed air conditioning at a military hideout built to serve as an emergency command center in case...
...personal secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann, and Ursula Richter, 52, a bookkeeper for a lobbying group, each disappeared while on vacation this month. A search of the women's modest apartments in Bonn revealed spy paraphernalia such as specialized photographic equipment and a briefcase with a hidden compartment. Lorenz Betzing, 53, a messenger for the West German armed forces' administrative office in Bonn and a close friend of Richter's, vanished last Monday. All three are now thought to be in East Germany...
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart...
...considering the talents that went into the original, how could it be otherwise? Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were at the peak of their collaboration; George Abbott directed; and George Balanchine did the choreography, most notably the 20-minute jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Rodgers and Hart are gone, and Balanchine is ill. But Abbott, now 95, has returned to direct one of the liveliest revivals in years...
...that neither Greek pan pipes nor Elizabethan sack buts could ever carry a really good Broadway tune. Richard Rodgers' score is overflowing with delightful melodies that are by turn jaunty and sweet. Harnessed to Lorenz Hart' witty and graceful lyrics, they pull the show along at an exhilarating clip, and in between numbers, George Abbott's book provides just the right mix of Shakespearean vaudeville and vaudevillian Shakespeare. Large chunks of iambic pentameter are carelessly tossed across the stage, only to be nimbly undercut by an outrageously topical reference or a wonderfully bad pun. And since its 1938 world premiere...