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...feel like Orson Welles when he first came to Hollywood and cried, 'This is the most beautiful toy in the world.' " So said French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau, 31, as he contemplated the prospect of staging the centennial celebration of the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner's longest, densest and most puzzling creation. The results were on display last week at the somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped...
...readings of modern works but not particularly for his Wagner. He then approached Berlin's Peter Stein to be director, and the word around Bayreuth is that the irreverent Stein proposed a Ring cycle without music. Wagner's next pick, suggested by Boulez, was Chéreau, the current enfant terrible of the Paris stage, whose only previous ventures into opera were an iconoclastic Tales of Hoffmann in Paris and Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri at Spoleto. ("You should watch this young man," said Luchino Visconti, director of The Damned and Death in Venice...
...Tokyo bureau, with its commuting runs to the Korean front, flew an estimated 60,000 miles in just about every type of craft out there, with one exception. Says Bu1 reau Chief Dwight' Martin:"I am hopeful that the bureau's budget for next year will include funds for a number of one-man helicopters. No foreign correspondent should be without one." Adds Senior Editor John Osborne (20,000 miles), who is a veteran Far East reporter: "I'd rather fly 5,000 miles over water with a reliable airline than walk five blocks through midtown Tokyo...
...during the last war and jumped the grade of captain when he was made Bureau Chief. To Ben Moreell belongs much credit for the gigantic job of building the Navy's worldwide bases. Other typical non-Annapolis staff corps admirals: Ross T. Mclntire, Chief of the Bu reau of Medicine and Surgery; William...
...treaty was not ratified by the U. S. until Feb. 17, 1815. Hostilities were not expected to cease until the treaty was ratified. Had Andrew Jackson lost, instead of won at New Orleans, Louisiana would have been a British colony. Correct therefore, is Rose McConnell Long; correct also is Reau E. Folk, chairman of the Tennessee commission on research into the real value of the Battle of New Orleans, who first brought the matter to light. This society is sponsoring a correction in all the standard school histories not only of the erroneous assumption which TIME repeated, but also...