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Virtue & Pornography. The producer of Vienna's Annie, Austrian-born U.S. Citizen Marcel Prawy, had already successfully staged Kiss Me, Kate in Vienna (TIME, March 5, 1956). His announcement that he was bringing Annie Oakley and the Wild West to the Danube shore outraged critics. They rushed fiercely to defend the virtue of their Merry Widows, the dignity of their Countess Maritzas and the artistic solvency of their Gypsy Barons. American musicals, said critics, were "pornographic" and not fit for "Kulturstaaten." Furthermore, the government-subsidized Volksoper should be playing native Austrian composers. (Annie's defenders pointed out that...
...leading male roles were cast with distinguished opera singers-rising Baritone Eberhard Wächter as Frank Butler; Karl Dönch, famed for his Beckmesser, as Chief Sitting Bull; Tenor Max Lorenz, a renowned Siegfried, as Buffalo Bill. After a rehearsal, onetime Metropolitan Soprano Brenda Lewis, the Annie Oakley and only American in a cast of 80, purred: "I had the impression that Lorenz thought he was playing Siegfried Get Your Annie...
...England Intercollegiates will be held today at the Oakley Country Club in Watertown, Mass. The varsity entries will be Jim Bailey, Dave Beadie, George Leness, George Mann...
...varsity golf team should be able to win its third match of the season today when it faces squads from M.I.T. and Babson at the Oakley Country Club...
...M.I.T. and Babson at Oakley...