Word: papiermach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karl May connoisseurs (more often adults than children) are willing to endure anything for the performances, which manage to achieve innocent, papiermaché grandeur with a cast of 130 and a dozen horses. The German dialogue is speckled with Texan ("Well, greenhorn"), and the overture invariably includes such incongruous Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike. Even the summer rainstorms cannot stop the show. Said one fan, donning his slicker: "In the Old West they didn't stop struggling just because it rained...
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