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...bracing for a fight. In a front-page editorial on Aug. 1, Switzerland?s national holiday, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung went so far as to liken the E.U. information-exchange measures to the all-intrusive Big Brother state of George Orwell?s novel 1984. And Gregor Rutz, general secretary of the Swiss People?s Party, which is pushing the constitutional amendment, contends that banking secrecy "is not at all anachronistic. It?s a highly modern policy that is particularly important today at a time when we experience ever more state intervention in the private lives of citizens." Brussels...
...acre amphitheater for the first Machine Tool Show in eight years. For many of the 100,000 businessmen who crowded into the show the new machine tools were must purchases, if their companies are to keep costs down in the face of rising material prices and wages. Said William Rutz, chairman of he National Machine Tool Builders' Association's show committee: the exhibits constitute a gigantic demonstration of now to increase productivity...
Both the Virgin and Mary Magdalene will undoubtedly have to be replaced. Tradition demands that these two important roles be played by unmarried women under 35. Having played the Virgin twice, Anni Rutz (who once studied at Florida's Rollins College) is now a spinsterly 37; Clara (Mary Magdalene) Mayr has taken a husband...
...Oberammergau, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, plans for next spring's revival of the world-famed Passion Play had hit a snag. Stars Alois Lang (the Christus), Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
Prospects for 1946 appear none too bright. Said Anni Rutz (who has twice played the Virgin Mary): "We lost more than 100 men in the war and new characters must be trained for the roles. Willy Bierling, who played John, is now a prisoner of war in the United States. Many women have married since 1934." (In most roles, married women are barred. Ritto Kosch, daughter of the town druggist, slated to play Mary Magdalene in 1940, has since disqualified herself by acquiring a husband and two children.) Sure of a role is Hans Zwink, Judas in 1934, who follows...