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Pianist Serkin was born in the Bohemian city of Eger. His father was a singer, so there was a piano in the house; young Rudi knew how to read music by the time he was four, made a public appearance at twelve. But papa Serkin discouraged a prodigy's career, and it was not until Rudi was 17 that he began touring as a member of Violinist Adolf Busch's ensemble. He made his U.S. debut in 1933, returned with his wife (Busch's daughter Irene) when the war began, and became a U.S. citizen...
...RUDI PANZ...
...West Germany last week, Staffer Rudi Treiber of Düsseldorf's Communist daily Freies Volk got a geography lesson. Under the headline PISTOLS AND BRASS KNUCKLES IN CLASSROOM, WEST BERLIN SCHOOLS ARE GANGSTER STUDIOS, Treiber had pointed to the school in the Pankow area of Berlin as a horrible example of just how the West brings up and trains its schoolchildren. In the Pankow school, he wrote, children have been found armed with brass knuckles and guns, while others write lewd poems which they circulate through an organization they call the "Bureau of Love...
Journalist Treiber had made a dreadful mistake: Pankow is in the Russian sector of Berlin, not as he had thought in one of the Western sectors. When Freies Volk discovered Treiber's error, it quickly printed an abject retraction: "Rudi Treiber has been unmasked [and fired] ... as a liar and an agent provocateur." Said ex-Comrade Treiber lamely: "I just didn't know where Pankow...
...Rudi Bing, the paradox of the old Met is the fact that, despite the old sets and old costumes, standbys such as Traviata and Trovatore "still sell out the house." His task, he thinks, is "to get the public to demand new and better productions." He has to admit, from box-office records, that so far "the public just does not care." But, says Rudi Bing, with the look of a man setting out to do something about it: "I do care...