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...ri Srnec thinks these things up, and is the Black Theater's No. 1 performer as well. He is 33, a short, stocky man with a bull neck, a round head, and a freshly scrubbed demeanor. He has a Ph.D. in music, another in theater, and another in art. Sometimes foreigners confuse his Black Theater with Lanterna Magica, another Czech theatrical group, which dazzled visitors to the 1958 Brussels World's Fair with a theatrical hybrid of song, speech, and film bits projected onto odd-shaped screens. But Srnec is swiftly clearing up the confusion the world over...
While admiring your color photographs of modern sculpture in Spoleto [Aug. 24], I was sorry to see under the name Germaine Ri-chier and title Don Quixote of the Forest the magnificent King (1959) by Augusto Perez, who sculpts for my gallery, and of whom I am very proud...
...were simply a cover for his secret activities as an Allied agent. Those activities, depicted with approximate accuracy in a novel by Alexander Klein, have now been cleverly rejiggered to produce an expert and expensive ($4,500,000) spy thriller. Written and directed by George (The Bridges at Toko-ri) Seaton, Traitor describes how Erickson (William Holden) was shanghaied into espionage by the Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell in love with a companion in espionage...
...chansonniers were disciplined last month by being barred from the state-owned radio and TV unless they first submitted tape recordings of their songs. The regime has seized editions of various newspapers, ranging from the left-wing Catholic Témoignage Chrétien to the right-wing Ri-varol. Two cartoonists of the prickly, left-center Express-Siné (The French Cat) and Tim-were charged with "publicly insulting the army" in cartoons critical of the Algerian war. Oddly, the Moscow-financed Communist press, despite its noisy demands for peace in Algeria, remains untouched...
...Metropolitan Opera likes to keep one or two operettas in its repertory, if only for purposes of New Year's Eve entertainment. In the past, Manager Rudolf Bing has done well with Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's La Péri-chole. Last week the Met unveiled a dazzling production of another Strauss operetta, The Gypsy Baron. While it might please properly champagned New Year's Eve audiences, the Met's Gypsy is more than half a failure for ordinary, year-round consumption...