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...Home. The Met survived the Depression on the box-office pull of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior. Now doing better business than ever under General Manager Rudolf Bing, the yellow brewery ranks with La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper as one of the Big Three of the operatic world. The Met is hampered by a physical plant that was antiquated in 1910 (to be abandoned in three years for the Met's new home in Lincoln Center) and by the difficulties of competing for top talent with the state-supported European houses. But in addition to its European stars...
...There is no opera in America worth speaking of outside New York City," Met Manager Rudolf Bing was quoted as saying in an interview last week. The only exceptions he conceded: Chicago and San Francisco. But even they, he felt, do not have long enough seasons or sufficient facilities to bring them up to the level of the Met or the best European houses...
Docking in Los Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked...
...Pauck was referring to the theory of German Theologian Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956) that the forms in which the Gospel is set down had meanings for the people who wrote it which are no longer clear to contemporary men. They must be reinterpreted in order to be understood and communicated. Historian Pauck seems to leave out of consideration, however, the increasing popularity in recent decades of a more demanding, more theological, more supernatural form of religion in both Catholic and Protestant Christianity and in Judaism as well...
...Though Hamburg-Atlantic is moving fast on Atlantic sealanes, the wonder boy of German shipping is a handsome, lean, baking-powder scion named Rudolf August Oetker, who started from scratch and now surpasses both Hamburg-American and its fellow giant, North German Lloyd. Taking advantage of the government tax law (which was repealed 3^ years ago), Oetker invested his big baking-powder profits in shipping. Oetker today controls the largest single German merchant fleet in terms of tonnage, consisting of 40 modern freighters and tankers totaling 375,000 tons...