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...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet, for String Orchestra Bolzoni *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *"The Damnation of Faust," Excerpts Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o'-the-Wisps. Dance of the Sylphs Hungarian March (Rakoczy) *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas
Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...
...other hand the show was most effective in demonstrating how different designers handle the same play. There were settings for Hamlet by the Soviet Nicolai Akimoff, the Austrian Oscar Strnad; the Czechoslovakian Vlastislav Hofman; the German Hans Poelzig, Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager and Lee Simonson of the U. S. Emperor Jones was set by Cleon Throckmorton, Donald Oenslager of New York; Walter Rene Fuerst of Paris; Vlastislav Hofman of Prague. Other highlights among the exhibits...
...Race stamps this code," rumbled Nazi Codifier Dr. Helmuth Nicolai. "Our whole new legal system is constructed on the cornerstone of race. There are two kinds of Justice. The Nordic or Teutonic kind is something one feels...
What this heritage is Dr. Nicolai and his corps of Nazi savants feel they have discovered by rummaging in Berlin's State Library through ancient compilations of Teutonic customs such as the 700-year-old Sachsenspiegel...