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Such stories plague the careers of our greatest film-makers, including King Vidor, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, and Frank Borzage, as well as stars like Gloria Swanson, Rudolf Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney Sr., and even W. C. Fields, one of whose two films directed by D. W. Griffith is lost...
...itself, its own new dwellings from which it will emerge and explain itself only for those who can show it a suitable visiting card." Those with the right visiting cards will be gratified by the excellent cast from Deutschen Oper Berlin, plus a libretto with color photos of Gustav Rudolf Sellner's lavish original sets and costumes, including the young lord's remarkable monkey suit...
Escalante and his lieutenants had similar meetings with a journalist of the Soviet news agency Novosti, the captain and first officer of a Soviet "fishing boat," and a Soviet adviser to Cuban intelligence. In one such meeting last year, Raúl said, Rudolf P. Shliapnikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Havana, assured the group that Russia could bring Castro to his knees by simply cutting off oil shipments. "Rodolfo made his observation," Raúl noted dryly, "in the midst of laughter...
...would soon crum ble, he greeted the victorious invading Americans with a proposal: his secrets in return for U.S. financial backing. The U.S. accepted and installed Gehlen and his wartime staff in a heavily guarded compound near Munich that had formerly served as headquarters of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government in his employ, smashed a Czech-run spy ring in West Germany...
Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing saw Mehta conduct Tosca in Montreal in 1964 and recalls that "it was very funny. I engaged him." Funny? "There were many mistakes," explains Bing. "He was totally inexperienced. But it was all overshadowed by his personality and talent. Experience anyone can get." Mehta made his Met debut in December 1965 with Aïda, quickly became one of the top cocks in the Met pit. This season he has conducted three major productions, including a new Carmen. Says Bing: "I am still impressed by his talent and personality-and now it is less...