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Bewitched by Wagner. The passion ate and sentimental pride Münchners have always taken in their opera house stiffened Opera Director Rudolf Hartmann's determination that it be rebuilt in conformity with its original style. Anticipating the likelihood of war damage, Munich had carefully disassembled the gold and white interior decorations of its Cuvilliés Theater before the bombs fell, so that when it was rebuilt in 1958, all its ornaments and trappings were intact. But inside its shell, the Nationaltheater was a chaos of terra-cotta rubble where grass and trees had begun to sprout...
...Duke Max lived to see the opera house rebuilt, and by the time his grandson, mad King Ludwig, was on the Bavarian throne, productions there had reached such a pitch of grandeur that the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde was largely responsible for Prussia's defeat of the Royal Bavarian Army in 1866; after the opera, there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said...
...Distressing as it may be to A.T. & T. the sale of offbeat handsets is booming. Two companies in New York City account for most of a fast-moving retail and mail order business in rebuilt foreign antiques and reproductions, equipped with dials and plug-ins to fit a phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge...
...York Philharmonic, and for seven years he endured in the impossible gloom of the old man's shadow, leading an orchestra that seemed to be looking the other way. At last he went home to England to take over Manchester's Halle Orchestra, which he doggedly rebuilt from a draft-drained band of 23 to one of Britain's finest ensembles. In 1959, he returned to New York and won a thunderous sentimental welcome; the next year he announced he was pushing off for Texas. "Barbirolli belongs to a world of music which knows no barrier...
Local Lumber. Quietly, carefully, Wilkinson rebuilt the team-with local lumber. Six of this year's starting eleven are Oklahomans, and there are only twelve Texans on the 63-man varsity squad. The team is big: Tackle Ralph Neely weighs in at 246 Ibs. It is fast: Halfback Joe Don Looney, a bull-necked 225-pounder, runs the 100 in 9.7 sec. It is brutal, boisterous-and tricky as a sidewinder. The Sooners sometimes run plays without a huddle, trying to catch their opponents out of position...