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...Mayer and his company have taken The Tempest by storm. Designers Eric Martin and William Carter have built a magic island on the Loeb main stage. Paul Levi has filled it with delicate music, which, thanks to a specially installed sound system, is not just a noise off stage, but seems to fill the air. And Mayer, as director, has peopled the enchanted commonwealth with mankind. Plus two. The show should sell out by sundown...
...Mayer, no doubt, has read the appropriate criticism (and his clowns laugh as if they understand their quibbles). But, perhaps in an effort to give the play more life, or to make it more intelligible, he has adopted a slightly oversimplified interpretation...
...International Nickel and Falconbridge Nickel) of a scarce, strategically important metal. While the two governments are squabbling over the company's activities, the protagonists range far beyond the Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom. They include Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, former French Premier Rene Mayer and those storied bankers, the Rothschilds...
...Nickel is backed by some powerful forces. While the Cuban deal was being negotiated, the company's boss was Chairman Rene Mayer, who retired to the post of honorary chairman in January. The company is subsidized by the French government and controlled by the French Rothschilds, who are particularly close to Prime Minister Georges Pompidou, formerly the chief aide to Guy de Rothschild. Last month Guy de Rothschild and his brothers, owners of 10.6% of Le Nickel through several companies, carried out a complex exchange of stock to give them firmer control...
...called Claude Lorrains, a Boucher, a Watteau (which he described as "flea market quality") and a Courbet. As for the portrait of Ingres by David, "It is not by David and does not represent Ingres"; in fact, in 1796, it was exhibited as a work by Constance Mayer. Says Wildenstein, who consulted his reference library of 300,000 books before speaking out: "The Russians are simply making fun of us with this exhibit...