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...last week's performance, Strauss's one-act shocker still had plenty of power - from the moment the enlarged orches tra came crashing to life, through the frankly erotic music accompanying the incestuous recognition scene between Elektra and Orest, to Elektra's shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often...
...operation that might have been questionable for the U.S. Marines," said Mauston District Attorney Roland Vieth. It was also an operation that had destroyed the pleasures of their new homeland for the bereaved parents. Peter Kurylak, whose lost twelve-year-old, Orest, had been born in a German D.P. camp, spoke for all of them: "I did not send my boy to the Army. I sent him to camp to relax, to get away from the city and the traffic. Twelve years I was working for that one son I had. I drove him to school when he was little...
Except for a few facts about his professional background, few of his colleagues ever got to know very much about the solemn, sullen associate professor in engineering that St. Louis University hired in the summer of '54. Born in the Ukraine, Orest Stephen Makar, 47, had taught in Warsaw and Munich before coming to the U.S. in 1949. He was a specialist in photogrammetry,* worked for the U.S. Interior Department's Geodetic Survey, later got limited security clearance for a job at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. By the time he arrived in St. Louis...
Five women Russian students. accompanied by an officer of the Red Army will be entertained at an open gather at 3:30 oclock Sunday in the Phillips Brooks House. They are the Misses Fediukina, Postnova, Grosheva, Tessmova and Frolova, students at Columbia University, and Captain Orest Shevtsov, who visited Harvard late in April...
...members of the company of the Irving Place Theatre of New York, under the direction of its manager, Mr. Heinrich Conried. The cast, which has been slightly changed since last week, will be made up as follows: Iphigenie, Martha Schiffel. Thoas, Konig der Taurier, Carl Bender. Pylades, Eugen Hohenwarth. Orest, Carl Wagner. Arkas, August Meyer-Eigen...