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...second). Today, Mayer lets dealers do most of the picking. But his infectious enthusiasm has made modern-art converts out of several of his neighbors. Even the Mayers' butler now assembles collages from bow ties and false teeth, which Mayer hangs along with his Oldenburgs and Tingue-lys. "We buy what we like," he explains, "not for appreciation, but enjoyment. I hope we never stop...
...much gilding for the lily was the diagnosis-too much manner for the matter. "I had wanted it to be a simple thing," said Capote. This year, he decided to try it that way, at the 299-capacity Theater de Lys. "This is going to be the show we meant to present," said Truman. "If I'm going to lose, I want to lose...
Construction of the skyscraper complex, a scant 20 minutes by car from the Champs-Élysées, six minutes by rooftop helicopter from Orly and second only to the Pentagon in floor space (3,024,000 sq. ft.), will begin in 1968, provided the Paris Municipal Sites Commission bestows its imprimatur on the building, as expected, by Christmas...
...folk opera" that the composer and his neighbor, Playwright Maxwell Anderson, were working on in New City, N.Y., when Weill died of a heart attack at the age of 50. The five songs Weill completed for Huckleberry were locked away and all but forgotten for 14 years. Finally, Lys Symonette, Weill's former secretary and rehearsal pianist, and Broadway Conductor Milton Rosenstock resurrected the musical remains of Huckleberry, with the idea of molding it into a half-hour TV show. Several U.S. producers turned down the idea, so this spring Mrs. Symonette approached Heinz Scheiderbauer, Vienna's leading...
...father, and Jim, the runaway slave. The role of Huck is sung in a reedy voice by towheaded, freckle-faced Franz Elkins, a 14-year-old Austrian TV actor who won the part over several singers from the Vienna Boys Choir partly because of his prowess at tree climbing. Lys Symonette's husband Randolph, an American baritone currently with the Düsseldorf Opera, is Huck's coarsely villainous father. He and Huck dangle their fishing lines in the Danube to whistle and sing a tuneful folk ditty called Catfish Song...