Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best youngster programs in Manhattan last week was a puppet show set to music. Austria's famed Salzburg Marionette Theater gave three matinees in one day (starting at 10:30 a.m.) for successive audiences of delighted small fry. With a few changes in the bill, it proved that it could also fill Town Hall with grownups in the evening. As befitted a troupe from his old home town, the Salzburgers did much of their work to music by Mozart...
...islands, his Liberals lost to the opposition Nacionalistas, led by Jose Laurel, the able but embittered man who was President of the Philippines under Japanese rule. (Collaboration has largely ceased to be a political issue in the Philippines since the late Manuel Roxas, once No. 2 in the puppet regime, became postwar President with the tacit blessing of Douglas MacArthur...
...excellent background music, the original production had no sound track, but Boris Karloff's dubbed-in narration helps to supplement and to speed up the action in the few spots that the film drags. Unfortunately, the lines sometimes draw attention away from the intricate, beautiful movements of the puppet actors...
...year ago Russia signed a five-year trade pact with its puppet, Czechoslovakia, sharply boosting the Czechs' already huge tribute (mostly heavy machinery) to Russia. Early this year Russia upped the ante again. The Czech economy could not take it. Last week, in a frantic effort to meet Moscow's demands, the Czech Communist regime was shaken up. The Czech Communist Party 1) abolished its governing four-man secretariat, shifted its job to a Soviet-style Politburo and Orgburo; 2) switched Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky from his top post as party general secretary to Vice Premier, which...
...countrymen learned that much in 1938. The year before, Trujillo's soldiers butchered thousands of Haitians who had settled on Dominican land near the Haitian border. The massacre made the regime so unpopular with other American governments that Trujillo decided to "retire" for a while, installed a puppet President for the 1938-42 term. * But the Benefactor's dictatorial grip remained as tight as ever...