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...Frank off the stage? One night last week, in a mass premiere, the curtains of seven major theaters in seven German cities rose on Anne Frank. At West Berlin's Schlosspark Theater, a packed opening climaxed the city's Cultural Festival. At the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf in the rich Ruhr, the elegant opening drew a crowd in black tie and bare shoulders. Other theaters-in Hamburg, Karlsruhe. Konstanz, Aachen and East Germany's Dresden-were jammed...
...that moment, with the curtain down, an extraordinary thing happened. The audiences, which had sat through the performances in what appeared to be a shocked silence, sat on in silence, without applauding. The elegant Düsseldorf audience filed out quietly, many moist-eyed and with smeared face powder and rouge. U.S. Actors' Coach Paula Strasberg, mother of Susan Strasberg. who created the Anne Frank role on Broadway, described what happened in Berlin: "After the curtain fell there was a deep, dark silence. Not a sound. It seemed to me the people weren't even breathing. It lasted...
...bustling construction site in the West German city of Düsseldorf last week, the final steel girders were being lowered into place for an important new building: Germany's biggest and most modern stock exchange. When it is formally opened next summer, the city's brokers and traders will have a 13-story, $1,500,000 granite-and-glass headquarters with a trading floor almost half the size of a football field, a modern ticker-tape system, offices and exhibition rooms and a 100-car parking garage. Düsseldorf's new Stock Exchange will symbolize...
Taxes & Dividends. Before World War II, Germany had a central stock exchange in Berlin. Now there are eight independent regional exchanges-in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover and Bremen-which traded $1.5 billion worth of stocks and bonds last year v. only $200 million in 1951. Twice since 1948 Diüsseldorf's stock and bond traders have been forced to move into bigger quarters because trading has grown...
...Christian teaching is indeed compatible with the assumption that there are extra-earthly rational creatures similar to human beings," he writes in the Düsseldorf daily, Rheinische Post. "The supreme world aim is the glorification of God through rational beings . . . Should we assume there to be nothing but deserts in all these [other] worlds...