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...more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that were not. The sirens Pescht meets on his philanderings contribute little to the modern dance. On the other hand, his homecoming is deeply moving, from the time he drags...
...farmer who kept a brewery on the side, Kurt Jooss was expected to go through a general schooling, return to the soil. He rebelled. At school he was moody, more interested in the piano and taking pictures. For a time he struggled with farming, but after one session with Rudolf von Laban he was suddenly determined to dance, studied for three years with the eccentric who inspired Mary Wigman and many another of the modernistic school...
...awkward foster mother, Rudo Stanka suffered agony each time a new waif was brought to the poverty-ridden hut to die. He did not solve the mystery of his birth until he had been whisked away to a castle, educated. Then he discovered that he was the son of Rudolf, the brilliant, impetuous heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and thus grandson of the old Emperor Franz Josef he had hated as a tyrant in his peasant days. But Rudo as an illegitimate prince befriending the commoners, studying art, hating the nobility, philosophizing over nature, marrying a peasant girl...
Four Nazi Years. As usual the Party Congress was not opened by Leader Hitler who sat in the audience, but by his apple-cheeked deputy leader Rudolf Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as usual the annual Proclamation-in effect a State of the Nation speech-written by Adolf Hitler was delivered by Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi Leader, a true Teuton orator whose rasping pugnacious voice sounds almost exactly like Der Führer...
...Rudolf Carnap, of the Deutsche University at Prague, Philosophy...