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...Organizer. Having persuaded Cellist Pablo Casals to come out of exile and begin performing again in 1950, Schneider now serves as major-domo of the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. He is one of the guiding spirits of Pianist Rudolf Serkin's Marlboro Festival in Vermont. An indefatigable organizer of concerts, he has created such benign features of New York City musical life as the free outdoor performances in Greenwich Village and the offbeat chamber series at Manhattan's New School. A restless exponent of widening the repertory, he once formed a Schneider String Quartet expressly...
...Tarzan of the title is Baron Wolfgang von Hoppe (Rudolf Hruŝínsky), whose parents take him to the African jungle around the turn of the century to escape the sinks of civilization. Vati and Mutti promptly perish, of course, and little Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough...
...essence of the film, though, is not in the comic-strip chiaroscuro of its plot but in the fun Director Jaroslav Balík and his cast have with their caricatures. Rudolf Hruŝínsky turns in a burly, brachycephalic performance as the ape man, first delighted by the apparent selflessness of humans-who do not fight for food at a reception and talk constantly of altruism-then horrified at the superjungle that gives the lie to their platitudes. "People, what are you doing?" he cries as the assorted forces of evil tangle in, around, up, down and through...
Aside from the law, Fortas' lifelong interest has been music. His Sunday afternoon music group is famous as the "3025 N Street Strictly-No-Refunds String Quartet." Any visiting violinist or cellist who passes through Washington is likely to be pressed into service. The Justice numbers Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin...
...months, left-wing students have been staging riotous demonstrations against the newspapers of Germany's No. 1 press entrepreneur, Axel Springer. In his pugnacious newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Rudolf Augstein has called for a "lex Springer" to cut the publisher down to size. And a government commission recently warned that a publisher as big as Springer controlled too much of Germany's press for democratic comfort...